[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: Poetry

I am the Apsara’s daughter
for Soriya I wander in her forest / hearing ankle bells jingle with each step,/ the universe at her feet and hands./ I want to touch her./ She flies in my house in paintings/ with petals of orange blossom raining from the/ ceiling./ With her ...
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My Partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow
My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow/ but all I want to do is marry them on a beach that refuses to take itself too seriously. Overtime I have learned that a love is most astonishing/ when it persists after learning where we com...
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The Poet Goes To Indiana
I'll tell you a half-dozen things/ that happened to me/ in Indiana/ when I went that far west to teach./ You tell me if it was worth it./ I lived in the country/ with my dog— part of the bargain of coming./ And there was a pond/ with fish from, I t...
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The Journey
One day you finally knew/ what you had to do, and began,/ though the voices around you/ kept shouting/ their bad advice—/ though the whole house/ began to tremble/ and you felt the old tug/ at your ankles./ "Mend my life!"/ each voice cried./ But y...
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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.