[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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I stepped from Plank to Plank
I stepped from Plank to Plank/ a slow and cautious way/ The Stars about my Head I felt/ About my Feet the Sea.// I knew not but the next/ Would be my final inch -/ This gave me that precarious Gait/ Some call experience.
Emily Dickinson
I know about living Plank to Plank. I know slow and steady progress. I know the importance of starting, the magic of consistency, and the glory of finishing. My Gait shifts — depending upon my will — from gentle to fierce. The Planks shift, too. Sometimes called Challenge. Sometimes called Change. Sometimes called Center. The stars guide. The water flows. The grass on my left and right grows. My precarious Gait stills when desire fuels my steps and I allow the seasons to provide the rhythm. That is the great secret of a Plank to Plank life.
About Katie
Born in 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.
