[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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Poetry
Not Writing
I am not writing anything that anyone has requested of me or is waiting/ on, not a poetics essay or any other sort of essay, not a roundtable response, not interview responses, not writing prompts for younger writers,/ not my thoughts...
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Poetry
Invitation
Oh do you have time/ to linger/ for just a little while/ out of your busy/ and very important day/ for the goldfinches/ that have gathered/ in a field of thistles/ for a musical battle,/ to see who can sing/ the highest note,/ or the lowest,/ or the ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Get Out The Map
Get out the mapGet out the map and lay your finger anywhere downWe'll leave the figurin' to those we pass on our way out of townDon't drink the waterThere seems to be somethin' ailin' everyoneI'm gonna clear my head (I'm gonna clear my head)I'm gonna...
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Poetry
Obituary Generator
[ ] died in the afternoon but did not live comfortably past the morning. Their family did not know them and neither do I.from "Obituary Generator" by Mariah Bosch Some years ago I wrote obituaries for my grandmother and uncle. Both people were...
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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.
