[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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My First Pelvic Ultrasound: Reflecting on Love and Normalcy
My first pelvic ultrasound occurred when I was 37 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). I was participating in a Turner Syndrome study, and it was a big deal for me. I knew the ultrasound had been prescribed to assess my health, not to evaluate...
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Grief and Tuner Syndrome: A View from Inside A Pandemic
Everything Feels Different How do you cope with grief during a pandemic? “Normal” coping is a debatable idea to begin with, but it seems to have changed to an unrecognizable list of questions that have no sure answers. Given the current circum...
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Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: My Awareness Success Story
Talking Turner Syndrome I am new to talking about Turner Syndrome. I have been writing about it for a few years, but talking about it is a different thing. Building relationships with strangers connected to Turner Syndrome is something I had never do...
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My Annual Checkup for Turner Syndrome
Since I moved to Florida 4 years ago, every year I travel 5 and a half hours from Miami to Gainesville for a doctor’s appointment at the Turner Syndrome Center at the University of Florida. After many years of patchwork health care from non-Turner ...
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Born in 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.
