[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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A Woman Speaks
Moon marked and touched by sun
From Audre Lorde’s “A Woman Speaks“
my magic is unwritten
but when the sea turns back
it will leave my shape behind.
I am thinking about the moon’s marks and the sun’s touch. I am thinking about unwritten magic. I am thinking about black seas and the shapes we leave behind.
Words connect me to miracles and not yet. Words connect me to self and other. Words connect me to big ideas like peace and justice and love. Words connect me to big things like nature and seasons and invention. (That’s important because we all move between the power of words and the point at which words can lose their meaning.) Words connect me to taking up space and living big. Words connect me to story and song. Words connect me to figure and ground. Words connect me to images, and images connect me to words.
That is what happens when a woman speaks. She weaves and imagines. She plants and forgives. She remembers and bleeds. She builds and creates. She invites and extends. She clarifies and calls. She burns and grows. She cries and sings. She prays and lives.
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.
