[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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In the Company of Women
Make me laugh over coffee,/ make it a double, Make it frothy/ so it seethes in our delight.
January Hill O’Neil
There is something beautiful about the company of women. Gently understood, the company of women is frothy and delightful. It celebrates something unique. Not like unicorn and fairy and mermaid unique, but the unique of ocean depths and night skies and rainbows.
Something huge and vast and poweful. Something big enough to hold things that are too heavy to carry on our own. Something strong enough to withstand life’s falling aparts. Something gentle enough to prove gentle is fierce.
In this way, laughter over coffee becomes a cure — an antidote for isolation. In this way, we are more together than we are individually. In this way, we are love.
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.
