[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: Health
Doing Philosophy, Health
A Lesson in Figure and Ground
I have always been fascinated by the concept of figure and ground. I have always liked questioning my perceptions and understanding. I always see both the vase and the face. I appreciate how visual artists challenge our perception of t...
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Health, Publication
The Unspeakable Gift
The minister’s sermon was about love. I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scaredand a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Churchhas always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morni...
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Health
Running Is A Gift
Running is a gift to me. I started running at the age of 29 in preparation for turning 30, approaching the end of my doctoral journey having received negative feedback on my first round of exams. I was questioning everything. After a life of not conn...
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Gratitude, Health, Publication, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Turner syndrome Awareness
February is Turner syndrome Awareness Month. I have pulled together a few posts I have written over the years about Turner syndrome to mark the occasion. I spent most of my life in silence about my diagnosis. So, talking and writing about it did not ...
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.
