[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 Wish
I wish to see/ your magnificence/ even in the prayers left unanswered.
F.S. Yousaf
To see magnificence in prayers left unanswered. To feel joy in the midst of sadness. To witness miracles in the everyday. To be heartbroken with grief and still seek connection. To understand the relationship between truth and contradiction. This is the heart of life’s falling apart and coming back together. We hold it all. We are multitudes.
That is the real wish. That is the real gift. To love ourselves and others because of it all. Love in the midst of unanswered prayers, sadness, the everyday, grief, and contradiction. love in the midst of it all. That is our challenge as we are blinded by our rightness, weakened by our rigidity, paralyzed by our anger, and caged by our smallness. Life’s sweetness lives within all that.
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.
