[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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Category: Course Work
Course Work, Doing Philosophy
Confessions of a Story Slayer
Slay: 1. to kill by violence. 2. to destroy; extinguish.A standard definition of “to slay” Stories are being slayed left and right in our world. The stories of refugees seeking safety. The stories of innocent lives lost to gun violence. The st...
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Course Work
A Wide-Awakeness Cover Story
I have been thinking about Martha’s notion of cover story. As someone who fired her first doctoral committee when they objected to my wide-awakeness research, (“Wouldn’t you be better served writing about standardized testing? That is what peop...
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Course Work
A Eureka Expedition to My Bookshelf
In the spirit of joyfully taking action to solve a problem – publishing the three books I have written — I took eureka expedition to my bookshelf. A few years ago, at the height of pandemic isolation, separated physically from others, and having ...
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Course Work
Wide-Awake Magic
I have been seeing more magic lately. The kind of magic that feels good. The kind of magic that reinforces my gut instinct and intuition. The kind of magic that feels like stillness and knowing. The kind of magic that marks my steps. The kind of magi...
read moreAbout 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.
