[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
Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake
Category: Music
Doing Philosophy, Music, Podcasts
Truth, Beauty, and Banjo
We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He’s followed what many experience as this quintessent...
read more
Music, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Indigo Girls
So I know I'm all rightLife will come and life will goStill I feel it's all rightCause I just got a letter to my soulAnd when my whole life is on the tip of my tongueEmpty pages for the no longer youngThe apathy of time laughs in my faceYou say "each...
read more
Music
Least Complicated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated From Indigo Girls "Least Complicated" Life is beautiful and hard. It's beauty can be breathtaking, and the hard parts can be crushing. That being said, it does not have to be that hard. Let me explain...
read moreAbout 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.
