[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
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far,feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell.From Rainer Maria Rilke's "Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower" We are not alone in our darkness. We all experienc...
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Poetry
Differences of Opinion
The planet goes on being round.From Wendy Cope's "Differences of Opinion" I think about the difference between facts and opinions. I think about the difference between fake and real. I think about the difference between truth and lies. I think abo...
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Doing Philosophy, Poetry
That Little Beast
That pretty little beast, a poem, has a mind of its own. Sometimes I want it to crave apples but it wants red meat. Sometimes I want to walk peacefully on the shore and it wants to take off all its clothes and dive in. From Mary O...
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About Katie
Born in 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.
