AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry, based in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers, won the 2023 Barnes & Nobel Discover Prize, the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her new novel The Birthing Tree will be published September 1, 2026.