[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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Poetry
In the meantime, if you demand on one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
from Marianne Moore’s, “Poetry“
I live in the space between raw and genuine. Between action and consequence. Between a hammer and nail. Between grace and precision. Between metaphor and fact. Between beautiful and cruel. Between love and indifference. Between broken and whole. Between not yet and as if. Between poetry and prayer.
The distance is unclear. The timing is perfect. The story is familiar. The song is pure. The words are new. The sound is truth.
I am interested in poetry. I aspire to be a “literalist of the imagination” humbly seeking to pay attention, experience awe, and describe. I aspire to be awake and in and of. I aspire to sit with it all and love.
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.
