[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

Incantation of the First Order
Never! is the word of last resorts, Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry. To those inclined toward kindness, I say Come out of your houses drumming. All others, beware: I have discarded my smile but not my teeth.From "Incantation of the Fir...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Notebook 2021
“I was so willing to pull a page out of my notebook, a day, several bright days and live them as if I was only alive, thirsty, timeless, young enough, to do this one more time, to dare to have nothing so much to lose and to feel that potential dyin...
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All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
All my friends are finding new beliefs.This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.In a highly literary and hitherto religiously-indifferent JewGod whomps on like a genetic generator.Paleo, Keto, Zone, South Beach, Bourbon.Exercise regimen...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Emily Dickinson
Oh Sumptuous moment/ Slower go/ That I may gloat on thee -// ‘Twill never be the same to starve/ Now I abundance see -// Which was to famish, then or now -// The difference of Day/ Ask him unto the Gallows led -// With morning in the sky – E...
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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.