Christopher Cokinos
Professor
Management
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Germany
Biography
An associate professor English at the University of Arizona, Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction, two poetry collections, and an anthology that combines contemporary poetry and prose with a field guide format. He is the lead mentor in a science communication program at Arizona and is affiliated faculty with the Institute of the Environment, and the Global Change program. He has won a Whiting Award, a Glasgow Prize, and an NSF Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Fellowship, among several prizes. In 2015, he won an Outstanding Mentor of Graduate/Professional Students Award at Arizona. His poetry, essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in such venues as TYPO, Diagram, Ecotone, Orion, Pacific Standard, The Writer’s Chronicle, Salon, The American Scholar, Science, and Extrapolation. A recent finalist for the Iowa Review poetry prize, he has work forthcoming in Foundation. He contributes occasional op-eds to the Los Angeles Times. Cokinos divides his time between Tucson’s Barrio Libre and Logan Canyon, Utah.
Research Interest
"Atlas of the Long Tomorrow: Radical Engineers, a Forgotten Journey, and Our Quest for a Better World "
