[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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New Life Starts in the Dark
…new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
Barbara Brown Taylor
In the heart of October, I am thinking about new life. I am thinking about the connection between seeds and harvest. I am thinking about the connection between a baby and birth. I am thinking about the connection between death and resurrection.
I believe in common resurrections. In resurrections that look like an open mind, an unclenched fist, a deep breath. In resurrections that look like what happens (occasionally) in my soul while writing something that brings me to tears. In resurrections that look like stepping outside myself and connecting with others.
Resurrections are absolutely and fundamentally about miracles that happen in the dark, when we are asleep and unable or unwilling, when we are physically tired and suffer from hope fatigue, when love is the last thing on our mind. Those resurrections are little darkness miracles. They are the powerful stuff of invention and transformation, of imagination and beginnings, of life itself.
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.
