[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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There Is Something In Me Maybe Someday To Be Written
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded like a note in school.
Sharon Olds
Notes are flower blossoms. Blossoms that burst in perfect time. Controlled by the seasons. Surviving on light and sweetness. Always reaching, looking, thinking up. Simply, gently, being — living and dying.
The something in me to be written is a blossom. There is no weight in a flower blossom. Part secret to be shared. Part beauty manifest. Part survivor story of scar tissue and stars. Part celebration of potential and courage. Part dance of truth and love. Part of a universal whole.
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.
