A. E. Copenhaver is a writer, editor, and science communicator. Her debut novel, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2022. Her flash fiction “Let Them Eat Trees” was published in the anthology Kirstofia.
If ecological literature (“eco-lit”) of the early twenty-first century can stand as any evidence, we readers are being asked to consider new and more complex relationships about what it means to live…