[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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Home
I didn’t know I was grateful
for such late-autumn
bent-up cornfields
yellow in the after-harvest
sun before the
cold plow turns it all over
into never.
From “Home” by Bruce Weigl
I grew up in a place where temperatures and clothes and rhythms changed. There was a time for everything. Swimsuits and gloves. Sunshine and snow. Boots and flip flops. Slowing down and speeding up. That was what I knew. That was home. I am grateful for home. I am grateful for seasons. I am grateful for fall. I am grateful for cool mornings, leaves that change color, and coats. I am grateful for corn, scare crows, and pumpkins. I am grateful for new years, harvest moons, and Thanksgiving. I am grateful for the hopeful, letting go, turning-it-all-overness of this moment.
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.
