[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: (telling)
origin myth: much before a further future elsewhere,you met in a drawing class From danilo machado’s (telling) Our lives are composed of stories. Our stories are our experience. We are the sum of our experience. Our details. Our yester...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Little Book of Cheerful Thoughts
Small enough to fit in your shirt pocket so you could take it out in a moment of distress to ingest a happy maxim or just stare a while at its orange and yellow cover (so cheerful in itself you...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: From Blossoms
There are days we liveas if death were nowherein the background; from joyto joy to joy, from wing to wing,from blossom to blossom toimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.From “Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee Spring is coming to an end. Sum...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Poppy Growing In Pavers
This has been a tough week amongst a string of tough weeks. I feel like a poppy fighting to grow through the cracks between pavers. Choosing to bloom in isolation. Finding hope in soil and sustenance. Finding air to breathe in concrete. Finding stren...
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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.
