Amanda Coplin

Amanda Coplin is an American novelist.

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

[1][2] Coplin's debut novel, The Orchardist was released through HarperCollins on August 21, 2012.

[3] The work deals with an orchardist that takes in two pregnant teenage sisters that are fleeing an abusive pimp that enslaved them in his brothel.

[4][5][6] The work went on to win the 2013 American Book Award and Washington State Book Award for Fiction.