[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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A Dream of Trees
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,/ A quiet house, some green and modest acres/ A little way from every troubling town,/ A little way from factories, schools, laments./ I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,/ With only streams and birds for company,/ To build out of my life a few wild stanzas./ And then it came to me, that so was death,/ A little way away from everywhere./ There is a thing in me still dreams of trees./ But let it go. Homesick for moderation,/ Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away./ If any find solution, let him tell it./ Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation/ Where, as the times implore our true involvement,/ The blades of every crisis point the way./ I would it were not so, but so it is./ Who ever made music of a mild day?
Mary Oliver
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
