[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
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile t...
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Poetry
Meditations on Text and Image
I, too, need to put something on a surface to get myself going. Nicholas Wong I both love and hate a blank page. I love the invitation offered by a blank page. Pages without lines ask me questions. Pages with stories invite me in. Pages with imag...
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Poetry
There Is Something In Me Maybe Someday To Be Written
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded like a note in school. Sharon Olds Notes are flower blossoms. Blossoms that burst in perfect time. Controlled by the seasons. Surviving on light and swe...
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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.
