[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 Writer
In her room at the prow of the house
Richard Wilbur, “The Writer“
Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story.
We all have the power to write our own stories — to steer our own ships. That I know for sure. Writing is imagining. Writing is steering. Writing is creating. Writing is beginning and ending. Writing is not limited to the written word. Writing is the day in and day out. Writing is the falling apart and back together. Writing is the be still and know. Writing is the as if and not yet.
We are all writers.
I have been a writer my entire life. I have created safe spaces for thoughts and dreams. I have imagined new worlds. I have built castles and coves and kaledoscopes. I have become characters. I have found refuge. I have exercised the muscles of compassion and vulnerability and curiosity. I have found clarity. If writing is thinking, real thought has emerged over time.
Here’s to the writers we all are. Here’s to the power of imagination. Here’s to the power of the pen. Here’s to shape of a loving world.
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.
