Sabrina Imbler on Finding Their Collective

Marion Aguas

“The dominant way that I used metaphor in How Far The Light Reaches was to show that these animals were a lot more like us than we give them credit for. But as I write about non-human life right now, I'm really interested in going beyond that relationship of sameness. I'm interested in looking at species that don't necessarily make me feel seen but make me feel provoked.”

Sabrina Imbler is a staff writer at Defector, a worker-owned site, where they cover creatures and the natural world. Their first full-length book, How Far the Light Reaches, won a Los Angeles Times book prize in science and technology. Their chapbook Dyke (geology), was published by Black Lawrence Press, and was selected for the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Program.