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      • 0.1 Intro
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    • 2.1 Labor
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S. Alexandra Harper

S. Alexandra Harper

Alexandra Harper's life currently mimics that of Grévy's zebras, San Juan orcas, Monarch butterflies, and other migratory animals. In the past year she has made a large loop from Spring Arbor, Michigan to Seattle, Washington to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Millinocket, Maine where she is—at the time of writing—residing in an off-grid log cabin south of Mount Katahdin. Each year Alexandra's travels move her to new destinations and new friends, always returning her to the nostalgic southern wrist of Michigan's mitten. She is Topology Magazine’s Managing Editor.

Paris re-told
EtceteraNovember 25, 2016

Paris re-told

By S. Alexandra Harper

When you travel, how do you best get to know a city? How do you get at its heart, unearthing the stories laying dormant…

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Being at home where you don’t belong
EssayOctober 14, 2015

Being at home where you don’t belong: A spiritual necessity

By S. Alexandra Harper

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
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  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Alex Quick
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Tom Springer
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  • Aline Lindemann
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Carol Stephen
  • Scott Peterson
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  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • John Pierce
  • Lisa Witz
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Alek Frost
  • Ian Randall Wilson
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  • Neil E. Das
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
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  • Randy Smit
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  • Joy Riggs
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
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  • John Davis Jr.
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  • Amanda Hiland
  • Donald Illich
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Christopher Smit
  • Nate Maxson
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jill McDonough
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Lynn White
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Sam Gesch
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  • Ruth Asher
  • Kierstan Barbre
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