Host Jim Schumock speaks with Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, The Orchardist tells the story of a reclusive orchardist, who tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. When two teenage girls take up on the orchardist's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion events, his life is changed forever.
Amanda Coplin was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and 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.
Author photo by Corina Bernstein