[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Course Work

Wordlessness
Wild New World I took a writing class with writer, psychologist, and coach Martha Beck, Wild New World. As Beck explains, "All of us have patterns where we're trying to live our best lives and we make the same mistakes over and over. Wild New Worl...
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Ode to Joy
I watched Ode to Joy flash mob video as part of a class led by Martha Beck, Write Into Light. It was an exercise guiding us to practice oneness. Initially, Irepeated the mantra We are one, We are one, We are one until I became so swept away that the...
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Advice From My Guardian Angel
Years ago, I took a writing class with Martha Beck, “Writing Into The Light.” In the course, we were asked to write a letter to ourself from the perspective of our guardian angel. I loved the assignment. I loved the idea that we have guardian ang...
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Forming
"Forming—bringing what you imagined into three-dimensional reality." Martha Beck I have been forming my entire life. Forming is a perfect name (thank you Martha Beck) for the process my heart has always seemed to understand. I have always list...
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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.