[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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Rakshasa
Eastside Trail
Eastside Corridor at the northeast corner of Piedmont Park
Rakshasa are demons or goblins in Hindu mythology. They are said to shape shift and wreck havoc between sunset and sunrise. Some Rakshasa are described, more benevolently, as nature spirits. I choose to think of the Rakshasa in Piedmont Park more like a nature spirit. It sits tucked way on what I call my super secret — and most favorite — part of my usual route. The first time I saw it I began to create a story in my mind’s eye of a great protector spirit giving me strength during my run, reminding me to be grateful for health and time, and building my relationship with the quiet and beauty of the woods. It is constant in the way seasons always change and stone always remains. It is mysterious in the way that it knows things — the secrets of years and the weight of many eyes. Many mouths have probably told its unique story. That is somehow locally mythic in a global and philosophical and even theological way.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
