[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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But Rooftops Did All the Work
As is the custom, two humans make a humanity
Tongo Eisen-Martin
What if our lives are but a series of rooftops — built over time, constructed and then reconstructed, and then reconstructed — connecting us to one another with floors and ceilings and doors and windows and walls? What if humanity is a structure dependent upon rooftops? Humanity’s structure — a structure dependent upon rooftops — is two humans. Humanity is a place where connection and belonging happen. Humanity is a place where two or more gather where love lives. Humanity is a place where miracles and magic and joy happen. The work of the rooftop is to make a humanity. Making a humanity is the work of imagining, creating, building.
It makes sense to me that rooftops do all the work. In a world of chaos and change. In a world of separation and isolation. In a world of shame and fear — where it all can feel too much — the simplicity of form and structure and work of rooftops makes sense.
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.
