[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. P...
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The Chickadees Are All Up in Our Feelings
Scientists say/ a larger hippocampus serves the species well in the season of remembering,/ when stored cells grow and die,/ replenishing through winter’s hunger,/ when the chickadees return to flit and fly/ to every buried need. Sarah Carey,...
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Poetry
Work In The Invisible
The prophets have wondered to themselves, " How long/ should we keep pounding// this cold iron? How long do we have to whisper into an/ empty cage?" Every motion// of created beings come from the creator. The first soul/ pushes and your second/ soul ...
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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.
