[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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The Dark Part of Morning
Hope is the dark part of morning.
Elisa Gabbert
I know the dark part of morning. I know the shadows that fall at the exact right time— like the blink before we open our eyes. I know the aspirational breath that happens just before thought. I know the quiet that slowly builds elevating a grateful and sluggish chorus.
There is hope in all that. In flowers facing the rising sun. In bones and muscles that wake and move. In our mind’s eye that sees clearly like the curtain opening on a stage. In that way, darkness is not darkness. New is not new. Beginning is not beginning. Hope is not hope. It is all morning.
About Katie
From 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.
