[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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How to Triumph Like a Girl
I like their lady horse swagger,
From Ada Limon’s “How to Triumph Like a Girl“
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let’s be honest, I like
that they’re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
We are tired. If we do our work, we are tired. If we put one foot in front of the other, we are tired. If we pay attention, we are tired. For so many reasons, we are tired. We need to reconnect with our power right here and now.
We must summons our inner lady horse. We must call her to the post. We must remember we are giant with power and heavy with blood. We must remember we are genius machines that know we are going to come in first. We must remember there is a time for it all — time to be hungry, angry, lonely, and afraid. We must hold those times close to our big eight pound hearts and know we are more than all that. We must run our race, and when we succeed, move about ears up with lady horse swagger.
About 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.
