[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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Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different race...
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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. Jelly Roll Morton Summer is nature's jazz. Improvisational and surprising. Blooming and joyous. Bounteous and overflowing. Hot days and long nights. Sweet like front porch tea. Its rhythm is p...
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Late Summer After a Panic Attack
What if I want to go devil instead? Bowdown to the madness that makes me. Droneof the neighbor’s mowing, a red mailbox flagerected, a dog bark from three houses over,and this is what a day is.From Ada Limon's " Late Summer After a Panic Attack" ...
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Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees
The last ghost leans with her ear against a dead wasp nest./ She closes her eyes and listens// To you, still singing/ Beyond the kingdom of the living. Ansel Elkins, Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees To be described a...
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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.
