Breakout Writers Series: Sabrina Imbler
March 11 7:00 pm
Las Vegas Natural History Museum
900 Las Vegas Blvd N, Las Vegas, NV 89101
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Breakout Writers Series: Sabrina Imbler
About the Event
Join BMI for a conversation with Sabrina Imbler, acclaimed science writer and essayist, will read from their book How Far the Light Reaches: My Life in Ten Sea Creatures. The event will be moderated by Tajja Isen, writer, editor, and former Shearing Fellow.
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 selected for the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Program. Sabrina lives in Brooklyn with their partner, cats Melon and Sesame, and a school of fish.
Tajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her first book, Some of My Best Friends, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. She is currently working on her second book, Tough Love, a memoir of mentorship, for which she was awarded a Spring 2024 Shearing Fellowship at the Black Mountain Institute. She is the interim editor-in-chief of Orion magazine and a contributing writer for The Walrus, where her column received an honorable mention at the 2024 National Magazine Awards.
Parking/getting there: The Las Vegas Natural History Museum is located in Downtown Las Vegas at 900 Las Vegas Blvd N, Las Vegas, NV 89101. There is free onsite parking in the museum parking lot. For additional information about parking/getting to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, please visit https://www.lvnhm.org/visit.
Questions? Please email blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu or call (702) 895-5542.
This project is supported in part by the Nevada Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the UNLV Asian & Asian American Studies program, the UNLV Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies, and the Neon Pacific Initiative.