[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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Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees
The last ghost leans with her ear against a dead wasp nest./ She closes her eyes and listens// To you, still singing/ Beyond the kingdom of the living.
Ansel Elkins, Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees
To be described as still singing. Despite it all. Because of it all. Before it all. During it all. After it all. Beyond it all. That is what I desire.
Some days it easier to sing than others. Some days jazz. Some days buzz. Some days wail. Some days concrete. Some days ice cream. Some days ocean crash. Some days space between breaths. Some days french horn. Some days purr.
The last ghost knows we are it all. We are multitudes. We are not yet. We are empty. We are running over. We are hungry. We are full. We are still singing.
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.
