![]() ![]() ![]() She has taught at a variety of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. Her other awards include the Abbie Copps Poetry Prize, Black Warrior Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize, Peter I. She received the Orion Book Award for The Zookeepers Wife. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. Her essays about nature and human nature have appeared in Parade, National Geographic, The New York Times, and The New Yorker magazines. She is coeditor of a Norton anthology, The Book of Love. She also writes nature books for children including Animal Sense Monk Seal Hideaway and Bats: Shadows in the Night. Her nonfiction works include A Natural History of the Senses A Natural History of Love The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Crocodilians, Penguins, and Whales An Alchemy of Mind and On Extended Wings. She has written many books of poetry including The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral Wife of Light Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire and I Praise My Destroyer. Poet, author, educator, adventurer, and naturalist, she tries to bridge science and art in her writing, exploring questions of who we are, where we come from, and how we fit into the fabric of the world. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. ![]() Diane Ackerman was born on Octoin Waukegan, Illinois. ![]()
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