[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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The Arcadian year
"But the Arcadian Calendar has a style all of its own - highly gothic, distinctly pagan, patterned and stylised in the manner of Art Nouveau. It’s darkly humorous, vicious, chilling, but also silly." Katherine May, The Arcadian year in Stray Att...
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so you want to be a writer
when it is truly time,and if you have been chosen,it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you.there is no other way.and there never was.from Charles Bukowski's, "so you want to be a writer" I think about bein...
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Merry Christmas
“And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and the sky itself, and to the floating bird. I too leave the fret and enclosure of my own life. I too dip myself towa...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Peace Is the First Thing the Angels Sang
Peace is the first thing the angels sang John Keble I am a big believer in sending Holiday Cards. For me, they are an annual moment to touch base. I get to touch base with myself in the designing, remembering, collecting, and writing that happens ...
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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.