[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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One In All
The Egyptian goddess Ma’at, along with the activism of African American women, and Afrofuturism, are the inspiration for this installation which contemplates the ideals of cosmic balance and divine order. The principles of Ma’at act as a framework for how we should behave and speak. Truth and Justice lead to Divine order to ensure the way the world should be. As the Earth responds to the stars and the planets, so does this installation respond to its environment, the sun, and the moon. The figure is the personification of harmony and the 3-sided wall is her balance. A universal order and path of truth are essential to keeping he world running.
Statement accompanying One in All — Grace Kisa and Ellex Swavoni
Thank you Ma’at for reminding me of order and balance. Thank you Ma’at for being both the sun and moon. Thank you Ma’at for celebrating the beauty of impermanence. Thank you Ma’at for ordering my steps toward truth and justice. Thank you Ma’at for singing a song of harmony and dissonance. Thank you Ma’at for expanding my world to include the strength of goddesses and the breadth of civilizations.
I don’t want a world without myths and legends. I don’t want a world without hope and aspiration. I don’t want a world without figure and ground. I don’t want a world without ebbs and flows. I don’t want a world without green space and community. I don’t want a world without public art.
About Katie
From 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.
