[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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Publication
Finding My Edge
The same stream of life/ that runs through the world/ runs through my veins. -Rabindranath Tagore "If you don't jump, you will be stuck. FOREVER!" proclaimed my Kiwi tour guide. He looked directly into my eyes. He stared at my soul. We were outsid...
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Gratitude, Health, Publication, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Turner syndrome Awareness
February is Turner syndrome Awareness Month. I have pulled together a few posts I have written over the years about Turner syndrome to mark the occasion. I spent most of my life in silence about my diagnosis. So, talking and writing about it did not ...
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Poetry, Publication
The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift.Mary Oliver "The Unspeakable Gift," my essay in the Washingtonian Magazine...
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Paying Attention, Publication
Reasons for Voyaging
Reasons For Voyaging The sculpture in front of the Christchurch Art Gallery is called Reasons for Voyaging. Shaped like sails extending from a ship’s hull, the grand structure is part European, part Maori, part modern, part ancient, part represe...
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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.
