Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity
In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds
This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places. Thresholds is a co-production between Black Mountain Institute and Literary Hub
*
Jordan sits down to talk with Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches, about writing the non-human world, leaving the world of legacy media, and how they’ve learned from the deep sea—and from their colleagues—about the power of collectivity.
Mentioned in the episode:
- how to write a book on top of a full-time job
- uncharismatic microfauna
- Sabrina’s essay on salps and queer collectivity, from How Far the Light Reaches
Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!
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.
________________________________
For more Thresholds, visit us at thisisthresholds.com. Original music by Lora-Faye Åshuvud.
Thresholds
Thresholds is a series of intimate, surprising interviews with writers and artists you love about the transformative experiences (surprises, crises, existential freakouts, u-turns, breakthroughs) that have shaped their work. The life-wasn’t-the-same-after-that moments. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio.
