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Amanda Cleary Eastep

Amanda Cleary Eastep identifies her most defining moment as a writer as the day she received a “D” in sophomore English for her creative use of sentence fragments. She now uses them gleefully at Living Between the Lines. Her writing has also appeared in catapult magazine, Think Christian, The Mudroom, and Christianity Today. She works as a freelance writer in business, industry, and higher education.

The sound of a calling
ThrowbackJanuary 21, 2016

The sound of a calling

By Amanda Cleary Eastep

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Amanda Cleary Eastep explores the interaction between…

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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 …

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