Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Christopher Cokinos (born 1963) is an American poet and writer of nonfiction on nature and the environment. St. Louis, taught creative writing and science communication at universities including the University of Arizona until retirement, and founded the journal Isotope.University of Arizona, Author site He has won the Whiting Award, John Burroughs Prize, and other honors for works like The Fallen Sky and his poetry collections.