[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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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -/ Success in Circuit lies/ Too bright for our infirm Delight/ The Truth’s superb surprise/ As Lightening to the Children eased/ With explanation kind/ The Truth must dazzle gradually/ Or every man be blind –
Emily Dickinson
The Truth must dazzle gradually.
Mystery dazzles gradually. Wonder dazzles gradually. Discovery dazzles gradually. Change dazzles gradually. Creating dazzles gradually.
Handling the Truth is about the slant. The slant is about the approach. The slant is about the context. The slant is about the perception. The slant is about the story.
About Katie
Born in 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.
