Amanda Peters author biography, plus links to books by Amanda Peters.

Amanda Peters

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. She is the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize; the novel was also named the Best Book of the Year by Amazon,The New Yorker, and People Magazine, among others. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.

This biography was last updated on 09/01/2026.

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