Kimberly W. Heiman is a Senior Lecturer of Biology at Muhlenberg College. She loved the oceans from a young age and pursued her passion by earning a BA in Biology from New College of Florida and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. As her pandemic coping strategy, she took up creative writing in 2021 and is currently enrolled in the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is currently working on a memoir and a science fiction novel.