[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
Lightening
The oaks shone/ gaunt gold/ on the lip/ of the storm before/ the wind rose,/ the shapeless mouth/ opened and began/ its five-hour howl;/ the lights/ went out fast, branches/ sidled over/ the pitch of the roof, bounced/ into the year/ that grew black/...
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Poetry
A Letter from Home
She sends me news of blue jays, frost,/ Of stars and now the harvest moon/ That rides above the stricken hills./ Lightly, she speaks of cold, of pain,/ And lists what is already lost./ Here where my life seems hard and slow,/ I read of glowing melons...
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Poetry
When Death Comes
When death comes/ like the hungry bear in autumn;// when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse/ to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;/ when death comes/ like the measle-pox/ when death comes/ like an iceberg between the shoulder bl...
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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.
