[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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Wisdom Through Awful Grace
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Indianapolis was my first grown-up city. Indianapolis was the first place I lived after I graduated from college. Indianapolis was the first place I rented my own apartment. I was an AmeriCorps member and high school drama teacher in Indianapolis, too.
Several blocks from where I served in AmeriCorps stands the Landmark for Peace, a memorial sculpture at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The memorial sculpture was built in the park where Robert Kennedy announced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s death to people gathered in Indianapolis that night. He had planned to deliver a campaign stump speech calling for economic justice, but that changed upon learning of King’s assassination. Robert F. Kennedy’s speech in Indianapolis spoke of the need for racial understanding and peace. He pleaded that violence not be the response to the tragedy of King’s death. Riots had erupted in several cities while Indianapolis remained peaceful.
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.
