[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
Origin Story
Here you are, I say instead, aloud, surprised at how close I’ve been holding you in the dark. from "Origin Story" by Leah Naomi Green There is comfort to be found in being held in the dark. At our cor...
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Poetry
Little Book of Cheerful Thoughts
Small enough to fit in your shirt pocket so you could take it out in a moment of distress to ingest a happy maxim or just stare a while at its orange and yellow cover (so cheerful in itself you...
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Poetry
Ways to Disappear
In the darkDown a stairwellThrough the doorwayGone westWith a new wishIn daylight From Camille Rankine's "Ways to Disappear" I have tried it all. To disappear. The whisper and the scream. The next door and the other side of the world. The obvious ...
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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.
