[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: Poetry
Poetry
The Woman the Boy Became
Growing is what anyone would do.Given the particularsShe knew what she knewShe was ridiculous.Born too smart and too dumb. From Kat Tempest's "The Woman the Boy Became" "We are all born too smart and too dumb." That thought really resonates with m...
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Poetry
To All My Friends
That I could be this human at this timebreathing, looking, seeing, smelling That I could be this moment at this timeresting, calmly moving, feeling That I could be this excellence at this timesudden, changed, peaceful, & woke From May Yang'...
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Poetry
What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around
The dream, then: to erupt/ into a sturdier form, like a wild lotus bursting into// its tantrum of blades. Kaveh Akbar What if tantrums are songs that raise our truths, our multitudes, our heart’s desires? What if annihilation makes us buoyant an...
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Poetry
What the Living Do
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass,/ say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep/ for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:...
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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.
