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Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Josh MacIvor-Andersen is the author of the memoir On Heights & Hunger, and the editor of Rooted: An Anthology of Arboreal Nonfiction, both forthcoming from Outpost19. His essays, reviews, and reportage have won numerous awards and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and can be found in a variety of journals and magazines. He lives with his family in Marquette, Michigan next to a big lake and is currently at work on a collection of meditations on the dynamics of arrival while striving daily, sometimes hourly, to explain the nuances of figurative versus literal rhetoric to his two children, both under five, who actually kind of get it.

Arbor awe
ThrowbackJuly 7, 2016

Arbor awe

By Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Josh Maclvor-Anderson shares a tale…

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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 …

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