Featured Author/Open Mic with Christina Rivera Cogswell

Featured Author/Open Mic with Christina Rivera Cogswell

Christina Rivera Cogswell is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and just launched into the world as of March 15th, 2025 with Curbstone Books, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. Christina’s essays have won a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, and appeared in Orion, The Cut, The Kenyon Review, and Terrain.org, among other places. You can learn more about Christina and MY OCEANS: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women at www.christinarivera.com.