[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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Something with a Lifespan
How many times/ should I look at you and should/ I change my life?
– Katie Peterson, Something with a Lifespan
Butterflies make sense to me. Elemental change is their lifecycle. Miracles are their constitution. They grow in perfect time. Their brief life is punctuated by beauty and vital work.
They make a lifespan count.
How many times can we change a life? How many metamorphoses can we request or require? How much change can we celebrate or endure?
The answer has something to do with making it all count. Making a life count means paying attention. Making a life count means heading towards the things that matter and away from the things that don’t. (The first step in that is knowing what matters.) Making a life count means curiosity and imagination. Making a life counts means intimacy and vulnerability. Making a life count means softness and breath.
About Katie
Born in 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.
