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Amanda Coplin

Sep

16

2013

Amanda Coplin

Congratulations, Amanda Coplin!

Portland’s novelist Amanda Coplin, whose debut The Orchardist was also just awarded the Washington State Book Award for fiction, was named one of the National Book Awards authors’ 5 under 35 honorees. Now in its the eighth year, the National Book Foundation  5 Under 35 program honors five fiction writers who are among the best …

Mar

5

2013

Orchardist

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

“Coplin’s consistent and finely-tuned rendering of a very different sensibility may help readers to comprehend a time when expedience did not rule . . . This patience is revealed in a narrative that is at once lyrical and unsentimental. This is the most extraordinary fruit of a noteworthy debut novel.” —Bellingham Herald The Orchardist by Amanda …

Nov

14

2012

PNBA’s 2013 Shortlist Announced

The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …

Sep

12

2012

Coplin Well Received
on ‘Well Read’

Terry Tazioli has a great interview with Amanda Coplin on his cable TV program Well Read. Coplin’s debut, The Orchardist, is getting both acclaim—called “a stunning accomplishment” on NPR—and lots of readers (It was number five on the Pacific NW indie bestseller list this week). After the interview, Mary Ann Gwinn, the book editor for …

Aug

21

2012

3

remarks

Amanda Coplin

‘Shining the Light on Somewhere New:’
an Interview with Amanda Coplin

Amanda Coplin was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon. …

Jun

20

2012

Laux’s American Life in Poetry

Dorianne Laux’s “Family Stories” from her 2000 collection Smoke is this week’s American Life in Poetry featured poem. Laux traded her University of Oregon duck pond for the North Carolina State University wolfpack in 2008, but is currently back in Oregon as part of her MFA teaching gig at Pacific University. She’s the author of five …

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