My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer’s reflections on identity and the ocean

Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the  mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the  Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution  and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other  uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light  reaches. Imbler's debut weaves the wonders of marine biology with  stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting  endangered sea life to marginalised human communities and asking how  they and we adapt, survive and care for each other.