[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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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 Attention by Katherine May
There are many ways to measure a year. In a world driven by efficiency, productivity, achievement, and consumption, I find that thought comforting. Flexible measurement feels gently ambitious. I love calendars and planners and goal setting instruments. I am expert at buying tools and establishing goals. I purchase and have follow-through issues. When I think about it, wintering is a process by which we slow down. Wintering requires a different kind of calendar. In wintering, we pay attention. In wintering, we get to know our selves. In wintering, we identify desires and dreams and write them down on our hearts.
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.
