A wireless sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes that are densely deployed in a sensing environment. The effectiveness of the wireless sensor networks depends to a large extent on the coverage provided by the sensor deployment. In this paper, we present a sensor deployment approach based on glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) to enhance the coverage after an initial random placement of sensors. Each sensor will calculate its movement by luciferin of glowworm. The luciferin of glowworm can be got according the distance between a sensor and its neighbors. Once the sensor movement is computed, the sensor will move to the position. Our strategy attempts to maximize the sensing field coverage. Simulation results show that our GSO-based sensor deployment approach can provide high coverage and limited movement.