[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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(telling)
origin myth:
From danilo machado’s (telling)
much before a further future elsewhere,
you met in a drawing class
Our lives are composed of stories. Our stories are our experience. We are the sum of our experience. Our details. Our yesterdays. Our not yet. The (telling) of experience is a complex combination of memory, story, and narrative knowing.
Everything is bigger in the (telling). Many further futures unfold. The further future where I make freshman cheerleader, bid a sorority during rush, or don’t have Turner’s syndrome. The further future where I teach at a university in Toronto, or a high school in Hoquiam, or a prison in Miami. The further future where I herd sheep on the South Island of New Zealand, or bartend in Key West, or live in Manhattan writing books.
(Telling) exists within the parenthesis. Around the nouns and verbs. Around the subjects and predicates. In the (telling), what is dances with what was and what will be. In the (telling), myth is hard to separate from fact. In the (telling), the important parts emerge like morning, or truth, or love.
About Katie
Born in 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.
