[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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Like A White Stone
Like a white stone deep in a draw-well lying,
Anna Akhmatova, Like A White Stone
As hard and clear, a memory lies in me.
I cannot strive nor have I heart for striving:
It is such pain and yet such ecstasy.
Striving as both pain and ecstasy. That makes sense to me. I am a relentless striver. I am a soft hearted, perpetually hungry, eyes as wide as saucers, hard headed when provoked dreamer. I am also a holder of memories, flashes of light, messages that change me early in the morning. Somehow I hold it all.
That is the striving. The holding while letting go. The paying attention while looking beyond. The building while burning. The creating while dying. The breathing while exhausted. The relentless hope while terrified. The warrior on her knees. The warrior with her face to the sun.
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.
