[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Love as the Practice of Freedom
Easing into February with the energy of a month old New Year. Exhilarated by the expectations and goals, exhausted by the speed at which habits are formed. Somewhere between wintering and hibernating, and tackling big new goals.
February is an interesting month, brief in its length and long in its ambition. It is a month set aside to remember the contribution of African Americans to our culture. To hold up the more perfect union we become when we celebrate our interconnected, acknowledge the beauty and brokenness of our world, and reconcile to love one another more fully.
February is also Turner syndrome Awareness Month. The month when I remember I am one of the 2% of people who survive birth with Turner syndrome. It is my annual moment to reflect on what living with a chronic condition means to my past, present, and future. It is when I revisit the lessons I have learned about hope, mortality, and strength. It when I am reminded to be grateful for it all. In loving it all, I am free.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
