Aja Couchois Duncan

Aja Couchois Duncan is a social justice coach and capacity builder of Ojibwe, French, and Scottish descent who lives on the ancestral and stolen land of the Coastal Miwok people. Her debut collection, Restless Continent (Litmus Press, 2016) was selected by Entropy magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and awarded the California Book Award for poetry in 2017. Her lyric novel, Vestigial, is forthcoming from Litmus Press in the spring of 2021.

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Evidence (Excerpt from The Intimacy Trials)

Aja Couchois Duncan  | 
Issue 70.1 Fall 2021

Evidence… The remains of coelophysis were found in groups. Some say they were flocking. Others postulated that the dinosaurs gathered together at ghost ranch to feed and drink and were struck by a natural disaster, a flash flood, pernicious drought. We feel some sense of kinship with the theropod that thrived in the latter […]