Aja Couchois Duncan

Biography

Aja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area writer, capacity builder, and coach of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent. In her social justice work, Aja supports leaders, organizations and networks in advancing equity, complex systems change, and a more liberated future for us all. Her writing has been anthologized in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative Bay Poetics and Love Shook My Heart 2. Her debut collection, Restless Continent, was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. A fictional writer of nonfiction, she has published essays in the North American Review and Chain. She is a recipient of the Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and James D. Phelan Literary Award.