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November 2023
Hello, I'm Johnnie Bob. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Christopher Cokinos, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''You have added lots of glowing material (wp:puffery) to this article, all of it unsourced, and instead of adding references, you have removed the one and only reference contained in this article. Suggest you read up on Wikipedia articles, especially biographical articles and biographies of living persons before trying again.'' Johnnie Bob (talk) 20:02, 24 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, thanks for the explanation. I am Christopher Cokinos but decided to not use my name on the edits. I appreciate your helping me understand the editing guidelines. I was planning on doing this in stages, adding proper title formatting, etc. including sources. I'll tackle this soon by adding citations to the archived version then either sending it to you or posting again--which would you prefer? Thanks for this work! Best, Chris Mediaupdateswiki (talk) 20:07, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello again! Insert in-text here the sourced version of the update to see if you think it meets Wikipedia's standards. Thanks again for your message and helping me understand the process, to which I am new. I have a new book out next year and realized the Wiki entry on me was very old. All best.
 * 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 to 2002 as an instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor. A board member of the Flint Hills Audubon Society, he twice-served as president of the Kansas Audubon Council.
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20130427112131/http://www.environment.arizona.edu/christopher-cokinos
 * As an assistant professor and associate professor, Cokinos taught at Utah State University for nine years, from 2002 to 2011, where he founded and edited  Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing  . The magazine won two National Endowment for the Arts publication grants and garnered national attention before university budget cuts eliminated it.
 * https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=13169607&itype=NGPSID
 * https://www.usu.edu/today/story/utah-state-university-journal-receives-national-grant
 * https://usustatesman.com/english-dept-magazine-prints-final-issue/
 * https://www.terrain.org/2009/news/the-uncertain-future-of-isotope-and-ways-to-help-out/
 * He served on the board of Bridgerland Audubon and was president of the Utah Audubon Council.
 * https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/documents/Stilt2010Oct.pdf
 * https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/documents/Stilt2010Sept.pdf
 * In 2011, he was hired with tenure as an associate professor in the MFA program at the University of Arizona, going on to become a full professor while teaching creative nonfiction, the history of science fiction, critical theory and, with the Carson Scholars program, science-communication skills to the top graduate students in environmental fields. He was active with the then-Institute of the Environment, helped curate an exhibition on the Moon at the University Special Collections and collaborated with Biosphere 2. He retired in 2023. Former students have gone on to publish books with Little, Brown; William Morrow; Orbit; Broadway; Georgia and other presses. His work with the Carson Scholars program involved mentoring some 100 young scientists, work that was recognized by a Graduate and Professional Student Council Mentor of the Year Award.
 * http://www.christophercokinos.com
 * https://english.arizona.edu/person/christopher-cokinos#:~:text=While%20Professor%20of%20English%20at,founded%20and%20edited%20the%20N.E.A.
 * In 2003, he was one of 10 national recipients of the Whiting Award, given annually to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.  He is also the winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Fine-Line Prize for Lyric Prose (from Mid-American Review), and the Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writing of Nonfiction. Cokinos is also the winner of fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the Utah Arts Council, and the National Science Foundation. In 2003–2004 he was a member of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites expedition for five weeks, as part of his research for The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars. Additional awards include the John Burroughs Prize for Best Natural History Essay, a Udall Center for Public Policy Fellowship, a UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability Journalism Fellowship, a Southwest Book Award (with Eric Magrane), a fellowship at Munich's Rachel Carson Center and the New American Press Poetry Prize.
 * https://english.arizona.edu/person/christopher-cokinos#:~:text=While%20Professor%20of%20English%20at,founded%20and%20edited%20the%20N.E.A.
 * His research-based writing has uncovered the story of the last known wild passenger pigeon, the hidden histories of two women astronomers studying transient lunar phenomenon in an era rampant with professional sexism and the story of a renegade meteorite scientist named Harvey Nininger.
 * https://www.npr.org/2000/03/24/1072037/passenger-pigeon
 * https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Still-As-Bright/Christopher-Cokinos/9781639365692#:~:text=Still%20As%20Bright%20also%20traces,midst%20of%20loss%20and%20change.
 * https://www.americanantiquarian.org/christopher-cokinos
 * Cokinos has been an analog astronaut with the Mars Desert Research Station (Crew 141) and with Imagination 1, an all-University of Arizona artists mission at the Space Analog for Moon and Mars at Biosphere 2.
 * https://environment.arizona.edu/person/christopher-cokinos
 * https://samb2.space/crews/calendar/
 * His essays, poems and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Dark Mountain, the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, High Country News, Ecotone, Orion, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, and Science, among many other venues. He is a frequent contributor to Astronomy and to the Los Angeles Times. His books have been praised by and featured in or on multiple venues including "All Things Considered," USA Today, People, Nature, the Washington Post Book World, the New Yorker, "Science Fantastic," PBS's The Open Mind, Planetary Radio and more. Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Richard Rhodes and best-selling author Dava Sobel, among others, have lauded Cokinos's work.
 * www.christophercokinos.com
 * https://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Sky-Intimate-History-Shooting/dp/1585427209/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701117177&sr=8-1
 * https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Earths-Edge-Poetry-Spaceflight/dp/0816539197/ref=sr_1_4?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117280&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-4
 * Cokinos lives with his wife, Kathe Lison, in northern Utah.
 * www.christophercokinos.com
 * ==Bibliography==
 * ===Non fiction===
 * *  Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds , nonfiction (New York: Tarcher, 2000; Warner, 2001; Tarcher/Penguin, 2009, revised.)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Thing-Feathers-Personal-Chronicle-ebook/dp/B00273BHKA/ref=sr_1_3?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-3
 * *  The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars , (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2009). https://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Sky-Intimate-History-Shooting/dp/1585427209/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701117177&sr=8-1
 * *  Bodies, of the Holocene: Essays , (Truman State University Press, 2013).
 * https://www.amazon.com/Holocene-Contemporary-Nonfiction-Christopher-Cokinos/dp/1612480985/ref=sr_1_5?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-5
 * * Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow (New York: Pegasus, 2024)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Still-As-Bright-Illuminating-Antiquity/dp/1639365699/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-2
 * ===Poetry collections===
 * *  Killing Seasons , (Topeka: Woodley Press, 1993)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Killing-seasons-Christopher-Cokinos/dp/0939391198/ref=sr_1_7?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-7
 * * Held as Earth, (Finishing Line, 2013)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Held-as-Earth-Christopher-Cokinos/dp/1622293347/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7J8IMKCA20FH&keywords=christopher+cokinos+held+as+earth&qid=1701117547&sprefix=christopher+cokinos+held+as+earth%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
 * * The Underneath (New American Press, 2019)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Underneath-Christopher-Cokinos/dp/1941561144/ref=sr_1_6?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-6
 * ===Anthologies===
 * * with Eric Magrane, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Sonoran-Desert-Literary-Field-Guide/dp/0816531234/ref=sr_1_11?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117407&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-11
 * * with Julie Swarstad Johnson, Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Space Flight (University of Arizona Press, 2020)
 * https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Earths-Edge-Poetry-Spaceflight/dp/0816539197/ref=sr_1_4?crid=QW38IQMBOKRX&keywords=christopher+cokinos&qid=1701117280&sprefix=christopher+cokinos%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-4
 * ==References==
 * ==Sources==
 *  Contemporary Authors Online  . The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000134622.
 * https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/cokinos-christopher-1963
 * https://english.arizona.edu/person/christopher-cokinos
 * https://environment.arizona.edu/person/christopher-cokinos
 * https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/fellows/sof/former_fellows/christopher_cokinos/index.html
 * https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-english-prof-pens-op-ed-piece-for-the-new-york-times
 * ==External links==
 * * Cokinos" author website
 * * Isotope magazine website, archived
 * * Profile at The Whiting Foundation
 * * "Prozac for the Planet: Can geoengineering make the climate happy? by Christopher Cokinos,  American Scholar , Autumn 2010
 * https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-11-15/artemis-nasa-moon-launch-kennedy-centercokinos-hed-tk
 * https://www.astronomy.com/author/christopher-cokinos/
 * https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-consolations-of-extinction/
 * https://dark-mountain.net/author/christooger-cckinos/ Mediaupdateswiki (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-consolations-of-extinction/
 * https://dark-mountain.net/author/christooger-cckinos/ Mediaupdateswiki (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2023 (UTC)