Christopher Cokinos

Christopher Cokinos's "Still as Bright" has been featured and praised in venues including a Kirkus starred review, Booklist, Sky & Telescope, Planetary Radio and The Space Show. Retired from the University of Arizona, Chris lives in Logan, Utah. He continues to write, with recent and forthcoming work in Orion, the Los Angeles Times, and Astronomy magazine. In 2024, he organized and led the first all-artists lunar surface analog mission with three UArizona colleagues, spending a week at SAM at Biosphere 2, which he wrote about in Esquire.

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Awards: Whiting Award, Toronto Globe and Mail Best 100 Books 2024, Auraist Best Literary Nonfiction Selection 2024

Wonders in the Night

Join authors Cokinos and Henion as they sit down with evolutionary biologist John Wiens and discuss the wonders around us that come out at night, from the smallest lightning bug to earth's companion moon.

Science City - Main Stage (Seats 195)  
Sat, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Multigenre
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Science City (following presentation)  

Panelists: Christopher Cokinos, Leigh Ann Henion
Moderator: John Wiens

The Night Sky

The night sky has inspired for millennia. Writers Anna Von Mertens and Chris Cokinos celebrate the power of looking upwards, looking closely, and the art in the science of the night sky.

UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110)  
Sun, Mar 16, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
History / Biography
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelists: Christopher Cokinos, Anna Von Mertens
Moderator: Sara Hammond

Books:

Still As Bright

An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow
Science / Medicine / Technology
Pegasus Books
April 2024
ISBN 9781639365692
448 pages

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Nature / Environment
Penguin Publishing Group
May 2009
ISBN 9781585427222
384 pages