[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
Morning Glories
Blue and dark-bluerose and deepest rosewhite and pink they are everywhere in the diligent cornfield rising and swaying in their reliablefinery in the littlefling of their bodies their gear and tackle all caught up in the corn...
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Poetry
It’s easy to invent a Life
It's easy to invent a Life —/ God does it — every Day —/ Creation — but the Gambol/ Of His Authority —// It's easy to efface it —/ The thrifty Deity/ Could scare afford Eternity/ To Spontaneity —// The Perished Patterns murmur —/ But ...
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Poetry
Each Life Converges to some Centre
Each Life Converges to some Centre —/ Expressed — or still —/ Exists in every Human Nature/ A Goal —// Embodied scarcely to itself — it may be —/ Too fair/ For Credibility's presumption/ To mar —// Adored with caution — as a Brittle H...
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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.
