Tucson Festival of Books

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


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