Amanda Coplin

Amanda Coplin is an American novelist. She was born in Wenatchee, Washington, and graduated from the University of Oregon and University of Minnesota.

In 2013, Coplin won a Whiting Writer's Award and was named to the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35".

Coplin's debut novel, The Orchardist, was released through HarperCollins on August 21, 2012. The work deals with an orchardist that takes in two pregnant teenage sisters who are fleeing an abusive pimp that enslaved them in his brothel. The book received praise from NPR, the Denver Post, and The Washington Post.

The work went on to win the 2013 American Book Award and Washington State Book Award for Fiction.

A native of Washington State, Amanda Coplin has been a Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as well as Ledig House International Writers' Residency Program in Ghent, New York. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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