Sierra Nelson's Bioluminescent Poetry

by Rich SmithSierra Nelson photographed during Octopus Week at the Seattle Aquarium, February 2019.STEVE KORN
Sierra Nelson is a poet and a performer who has a longtime love affair with science and sea creatures. It began with her summertime visits to the tide pools near her grandmother's house in Port Angeles. The misty aquatic wonderland was a sharp contrast to her early childhood of catching crickets and lizards in the sagebrush deserts of Nevada, where she lived until moving to the Pacific N