[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
Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake
Category: Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake
ring out the false
"Ring out the false, ring in the true." Alfred Lord Tennyson...
read more
Health, Weekly Wide-Awake
Next Year’s Word: Miracle
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I have chosen words of the year for more than ten years. Each year, I look within and think ab...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
Lighting Candles
“We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.” –Nachum Braverman I believe in miracles. We are in the season of celebrating light and miracles. The world needs miracles right now. Miracles of peace in our lives and wor...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
The Miracle of the Verb To Be (Our 2024 Christmas Letter)
“I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.” ― Miller Williams I was going to write a prayer for peace in our Holiday letter this year. I first started quoting...
read moreAbout Katie
From 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.
