[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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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly-Wide Awake: Actually Very Simple
He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Forward Into That Light
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,/ praise song for walking forward in that light. Elizabeth Bishop Election Day is coming up and I need inspiration and peace of mind. (Perhaps we all need inspiration and peace of mind.) My historian friends ...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Sanctuary
The tide pool crumples like a woman/ into the smallest version of herself,/ bleeding onto whatever touches her. Donika Kelly, Sanctuary I want to create and grow. I want to dance and learn. I want to bleed and breathe. I want to pay attention and ...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Try and Be Terrific
There are so many people who’ve come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo. Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them, generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay. I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour. Ada ...
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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.
