Amanda Peters

Author

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose, and her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Grain, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.

Nov. 17, 2023

Amanda Peters - THE BERRY PICKERS

In this interview, I chat with Amanda Peters about The Berry Pickers, how she decided to write this story, writing in first person, choosing who would narrate the story, writing a character study, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and other accolades, and much more.

Guest: Amanda Peters