Amanda Peters is the next featured author in our Acadia Alumni Book Club series. We invite you to read her work, The Berry Pickers, now and plan to meet her and join the conversation on Monday, June 24, 7-8 p.m., during our next virtual Book Club meeting.

REGISTRATION: If you would like to participate, please e-mail Events Coordinator Victoria Hendrycks at: victoria.hendrycks@acadiau.ca.

We look forward to seeing you, and please keep in mind Book Club members do not have to be Acadia affiliates; the Club is open to everyone. You can register anytime and participate in the session of your choice.

So far, we’ve looked at the Honourable Donald Oliver’s (’50, ’07 HON) highly anticipated autobiography, A Matter of Equality:  The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver; Jim Prime’s (’69) and Ben Robicheau’s fictional comedy, Fish and Dicks: Case Files from Digby Neck and Islands Fish-Gutting Service and Detective Agency; Two Crows Sorrow, a work of creative fiction by Laura Churchill Duke (’98); Peter Cleveland’s (’72) Double Shot of Scotch; Deborah Hemming’s, Throw Down Your Shadows; Tony Thomson’s About Face: A Mystery; and most recently, Andria Hill-Lehr’s Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, From Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe.

The Berry Pickers is an acclaimed first novel and national bestseller. It is the winner of the 2023 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, as well as winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Part-way through the meeting, The Berry Pickers author Amanda Peters will join us for a discussion.

 

Author’s bio:

The daughter of a Mi’kmaw father and a settler mother of European descent, Peters was raised in the Annapolis Valley but has lived and worked in Japan, South Korea, England and Scotland.

Her university degrees, from Mount Allison and Dalhousie, are in political science and public administration. She worked for many years in health policy and various administration roles for Health Canada, the Province of Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs and her home community, Glooscap First Nation.

Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, and filling Station magazine. Along the way, she earned a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto. She is also a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Amanda Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.