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Sabrina Imbler

Biography

Sabrina Imbler

Sabrina Imbler is a writer and science journalist living in Brooklyn. Their first chapbook, DYKE (GEOLOGY) was published by Black Lawrence Press. They have received fellowships and scholarships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tin House, the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat, Millay Arts, and Paragraph NY, and their work has been supported by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. Their essays and reporting have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Catapult and Sierra, among others.

Sabrina Imbler

Books by Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
by Sabrina Imbler - Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction, Science

A queer, mixed-race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community and care can be found in the sea.