[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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It’s Gonna Be Alright
if I could sing/ you would hear me and I would tell you/ it’s gonna be alright/ it’s gonna be alright/ it’s gonna be alright it would be something like that
Juan Felipe Herrera
As storms rain down and flowers grow. it’s gonna be alright. As things fall apart and back together. it’s gonna be alright. As things bend and break and mend. it’s gonna be alright. As morning becomes night until morning comes again. it’s gonna be alright. As joy becomes sorrow and tears become laughter. it’s gonna be alright. As praise becomes lamentation and glory returns. it’s gonna be alright. As we are wounded and those wounds heal. it’s gonna be alright. As stars shine and their light lives for millenia. it’s gonna be alright. As we tell the truth. it’s gonna be alright. As we stay soft and courageous. it’s gonna be alright.
I need to hear this 800 hundred times.
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.
