Children’s Author | Book Editor
AMANDA CLEARY EASTEP writes for kids (Tree Street Kids middle grade series) and young adults (Brio magazine) in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina, where she hikes to waterfalls with her husband and is studying the ecosystem of Southern Appalachia to earn Blue Ridge Naturalist certification.
Her love of God’s creation fills her stories.
She is also the senior editor at Moody Publishers, Chicago, working closely with nonfiction and children’s fiction authors to shape their books for Christian readers.
Amanda and her husband, together, have eight grown children and a border collie named Annie who wakes Amanda up early to write.
Professional Memberships
American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and ACFW Children’s Authors
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
The Academy of Christian Editors (ACE, board member)
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