The Lorenzo Reading Series

Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. | Oland Hall, room 104 | Free admission

The Lorenzo Society is pleased to welcome author Amanda Peters to campus in-conversation with Dr. Rachel Bryant.

Amanda will read from her new short fiction collection Waiting for the Long Night Moon as well as from her award-winning novel The Berry Pickers.

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her bestselling debut novel, The Berry Pickers, won the Barnes and Nobel Discover Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Crime Writers of Canada Best First Novel Award, and the Dartmouth Book Award, in addition to numerous other prize nominations.

Her short story collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon was released in August 2024 and was shortlisted for the Alistair McLeod short fiction prize.

Peters has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto, and she is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a member of Glooscap First Nation and lives in the Annapolis Valley with her fur babies.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

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