Sabrina Imbler is a science writer and essayist. They currently work as a reporting fellow on the science and health desk of The New York Times. Sabrina has received fellowships or scholarships from Tin House, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Jack Jones Literary Arts. They the ocean and uncharismatic microfauna. Their book, HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES, is forthcoming with Little, Brown in late 2022.

HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES is an essay collection about sea creatures that have helped the author understand their own identities and desires. Each essay introduces a sea creature: an octopus that lives at depths of 4,000 feet; a sturgeon that spends part of its life in rivers and the rest at sea; and a colonial, coil-like creature that is both an individual and a colony, to name a few. Imbler investigates the way each creature has evolved and managed to survive in the ocean as a way of thinking about the ways they have adapted and found joy as a queer, mixed-Asian person.

The book is told through rigorous reporting and a commitment to scientific accuracy. Imbler is a science journalist by trade and has years of experience digesting obscure topics into stories all people can understand. While the essays are all scientifically accurate, they are less concerned with a single narrative of science than they are in a science of accessibility. Just as Imbler's love of the sea helped them find an entry point into the biological sciences, they hope the essays may draw all kinds of people into a love of the ocean and science itself.

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