[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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Beachcomber Nocturne
This sea: a Chevy engine revving high/ reminding me how everything’s design.
Lupita Eyde-Tucker
In the midst of it all, it helps to remember everything’s design. Not in an “Everything happens for a reason” — “It’s all good” kind of way, but more like a love is the core of everything’s design kind of way — the powerful, all encompassing, constant, abiding, miraculous, hold-you-in-the-palm, Chevy engine kind of love.
That kind of love is comforting. I think about times when I have felt it in my bones. I think about times when I know it as sure as I know truth and kindness. I think about times when it carry’s and enfolds me. I think about suns and moons. I think about the quiet song.
I am a beachcomber. I collected shells throughout my childhood. I still have them today. They sing the song of memory and youth. They sing the song of life and the sea. They sing the song of tides and awe. They sing the song of cycles and life itself.
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.
