Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction for THE BERRY PICKERS, Amanda Peters’ THE BIRTHING TREE, about an Indigenous woman who must reconcile her work as a nurse and her place in the modern world alongside her grandmother’s desire to pass along to her the traditions of Indigenous midwifery, centred around a sacred community tree, amidst an increasingly hostile white society, to Dan Smetanka and Kendall Storey at Catapult, in an exclusive submission, Helen Garnons-Williams and Ella Harold at Fig Tree (UK), in an exclusive submission; and to Janice Zawerbny at Harper Canada (Canada), in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Marilyn Biderman at Transatlantic Literary Agency (US).
Amanda is represented by Marilyn Biderman.