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Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures, a new collection of essays by science journalist Sabrina Imbler, finds parallels between the world of marine creatures and stories drawn from Imbler's life. TIME magazine culture reporter Laura Zornosa says Imbler's writing on marine biology topics “links sea creatures...to deeply human aspects of their own identity;” the collection was recently named one of the TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Imbler will discuss the book with science writer and poet Christie Taylor in a conversation hosted by A Room of One's Own.

media release: A Room of One's Own is thrilled to welcome Sabrina Imbler and Christie Taylor to discuss Sabrina's new book How Far the Light Reaches. 

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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 female octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the terrifying Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other uncanny creatures lurking in the "midnight zone" of the ocean, far below where the light reaches. Fusing genres to create a new kind of essay, Imbler's debut collection weaves the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting endangered sea life to marginalized human communities and asking how they and we adapt, survive, and care for each other.

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.