[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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My Partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow
My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow/ but all I want to do is marry them on a beach that refuses to take itself too seriously. Overtime I have learned that a love is most astonishing/ when it persists after learning where we come from.
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Love after we know where we come from is profound. It is the kind of love of fossils and calliopes. It is the kind of love of scar tissue and stars. It is the kind of love of whispers and secrets. It is the kind of love that is light and deep. I am not sure we have have that kind of love until after learning we come from.
Learning where we come from is not an isolated act. It happens in communities of questions and curiosity. It is the fabric of hope if hope was made of church cook books and lace and playing cards and Aqua Net. It is beautiful and complex if beauty and complexity are simple. It happens again and again and again as we find center.
We run toward and away where we come from. The love that understands that gravitational force is astonishing. More than just understanding, the love that celebrates where we come from is the stuff of tears and miracles. That love does not take itself too seriously but is ultimately serious. That love is bigger than time and space. That love knows truth at a molecular level. That loves annihilates the physical and explodes the possible.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
