[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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If poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Seamus Heaney
I embrace my inwardness. The parts of me that are soft and round and full. The parts of me that hold tightly and sweetly and kindly. The parts of me that resist the poison of comparison and blame and chatter. The parts of me that are still and know. The parts of me that seek to understand more than to be understood. The parts of me that live toward the not yet. The parts of me that simply are both strength and weakness. The parts that breathe in peace and breathe out love. The parts that listen and see. The parts the full-throat sing. The parts that crawl and fly.
About Katie
Born in 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.
