[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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1969
The summer everyone left for the moon/ even those yet to be born.
Alex Dimitrov
There are dates that situate time. Dates that are before or after. Dates that locate or lose. Dates that define or expand. Dates that ask or answer. Dates that laugh or cry. Dates that celebrate or grieve. Dates that change the past, present, and future.
Not all dates fit this description. Most dates are what they are. Most dates come and go. Most dates are forgotten headlines. Most dates are simply “Meh.”
Most dates are personal. Their significance found in paying attention to small miracles. They are life changing on an individual scale. They are the butterfly effect and ripples on water. They are whispers in a world of screams. They are tears in the midst of joy and sadness.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
