[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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Testify
i stand before you to say
Eve L. Ewing, “testify“
that today i walked home
& caught the light through
the fence & it was so golden
i wanted to cry
I woke up this morning grateful. Grateful for it all. Grateful to be surrounded in possibility. Grateful that I am enough. Grateful for tears. For things that I wrote years ago being meaningful to people today. Grateful for the bakeries and birthdays. Grateful for cat purrs and new perfume. Grateful for abiding faith and kindness all around. Grateful for friends who teach me to bloom where I am planted, and to always hope. Grateful for second and third and fourth chances. Grateful for connection and time. Grateful for strength that emerges. Grateful for soft hearts and vulnerability. Grateful for poetry and prayer.
Mary Oliver instructs us to pay attention, be amazed, and tell about it. Telling about it is the heart of testifying. Telling about it means we see it all and share our stories. Telling about it means we don’t keep amazement and love to ourselves. Telling about it means we invite others to feel amazement and love, too. Telling about it amplifies good. Telling about is abundance. Telling about it shines light.
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.
