[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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All the Stars
During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them.
Barbara Brown Taylor
There is a constancy to light and dark, like sunlight at the depth of an ocean or in the heart of a cave. I find it comforting like rhythm and center. I find it comforting like navigation by starlight. I find it comforting like candles and dawn. All the time the stars are out there doing their thing. Existing beyond life’s finitude and fire. Like ages and eons, stars explode our truth beyond lifetimes into the realm of permanent impermanence. After that, it is all just a dance of falling apart and back together. After that it is all just a dance of as Ross Gay explains seeking what we love in common. After that, it is all just a dance as Ram Dass suggests walking each other home.
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.
