Christopher Cokinos
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Christopher Cokinos is an American poet and writer of nonfiction on nature and the environment.
Born in 1963 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he studied at Indiana University at Bloomington (BA 1981) and at Washington University in St. Louis (MFA 1991). He taught at Kansas State University from 1991-2002. He also served as president of the Kansas Audubon Council from 1996-98.
He is now an assistant professor of English at Utah State University and founding editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. He also teaches in the Chatham University Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.
In 2003, he was one of 10 national recipients of the Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.
[edit] Books
- Killing Seasons , poetry (Topeka: Woodley Press, 1993).
- Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, nonfiction (New York: Tarcher, 2000).
[edit] Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000134622.
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