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 * Amanda comes to the Appleseed Writing Project from Ligonier, Indiana, where she teaches English for ninth and tenth grade students at [|West Noble High School]. She graduated from nearby Columbia City High School and began her college courses through IPFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She completed her college education at [|Olivet Nazarene University] in Illinois with BA in English Education.

Amanda is inspired to write about life experiences and the natural world around her. She is also inspired by her students with whom she shares writing in class. She believes that the practice of writing is just as necessary for her as it is for her students, but it wasn't until the AWP Summer Institute writing experience that she began to think of herself as a writer.

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