A.E. Copenhaver is a writer, editor, and novelist. She’s worked in the environmental and nonprofit sectors for over a decade.
She has ghostwritten book chapters about cities plagued by factory farming, air pollution, and automobile traffic, and she has written about migrating white sharks, threatened sea otters, and depleted Pacific bluefin tuna. She holds degrees in English and environmental studies from Santa Clara University, and in 2009, she earned her master of art degree in culture and modernity from the University of East Anglia in England. Born in Bellevue, Washington, A.E. Copenhaver has lived in Carmel, California, for most of her life.
A.E. Copenhaver’s flash fiction “Let Them Eat Trees” was published in the Kirstofia anthology (2021). Her debut novel, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria—winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature—was published in 2022 by Ashland Creek Press.
Her first poem, Amends, was published by Dusk Magazine in September 2024.
In her current position at the International Arctic Research Center, A.E. Copenhaver serves as the executive director of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), a National Science Foundation-funded research collaboration bringing together Indigenous Knowledge, science, and policy.