Amanda Peters
3 books 1 series
Amanda Peters is a Mi'kmaw writer from Falmouth, Nova Scotia. The first novel, The Berry Pickers (2023), took the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence and the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Three books are catalogued: The Berry Pickers, the story collection Waiting for the Long Night Moon (2024) and The Birthing Tree (2026). Indigenous life, siblings, family and coming of age are the recurring subjects.