Chiggers L. Stokes

Chiggers Stokes was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 21, 1950, the first day of fall in the southern hemisphere. A contrarious thread connects the events of his life and imbues his writing. Raised in the woods of Langley, Virginia, the construction of the CIA and the National Park Service’s George Washington Memorial Parkway, were the first obstacles in the author’s childhood explorations of the natural world. During the course of the author’s formative years, suburban sprawl would digest …