[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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Norse Saga
Let us praise the immigrant/ who leaves the tropics and arrives in Chicago/ in the dead of winter.
Dave Vera, Norse Saga
Praise those who seek the unfamiliar. Praise those who embrace change. Praise those who say yes. Praise those who live big. Praise those who do it anyway. Praise those who move and flow. Praise those who leap and sing. Praise those who understand the perfect time of seasons.
Praise today. Praise beauty, wherever we are, today. Praise joy, wherever we are, today. Praise creativity, wherever we are, today. Praise curiosity, wherever we are, today. Praise, courage, wherever we are, today. Praise open hands, wherever we are, today. Praise fierce love, wherever we are, today.
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.
