[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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God’s World
As stretcheth me apart,—Lord, I do fear
From “God’s World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me,—let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.
The world is truly beautiful. Sometimes, amidst life’s falling apart and back together, it is easy to miss beauty. Paying attention to it all is both painful and important. Paying attention is the story. Paying attention is the tie that binds. Surrounded by the omniscient whisper of leaves on fire and the deciduous promise of growth, I stand amazed. Amazed at change and flow. Amazed at figure and ground. Amazed at soft gentle places to land and love. That is God’s world. I have heard it said that imagination makes empathy possible. Somewhere in yellow and red. Somewhere in cool air and breath that we see. Somewhere in approaching sleep that tucks us in to peaceful slumber. There is sweet imagination. There is bare clarity. There is truth and hope. May empathy emerge.
About Katie
Born in 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.
