[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 Empty Glass
Well, it all makes for interesting conjecture./ And it occurs to me that what is crucial is to believe/ in effort, to believe some good will come of simply trying,/ a good completely untainted by the corrupt initiating impulse/ to persuade or seduce—
Louise Glück
What if we believe some good will come from simply trying?
Maybe then it is easier to start and stop. Maybe then it is easier to succeed and fail. Maybe then it is easier to build and tear down. Maybe then it is easier to reflect and change. Maybe then it is easier to connect and understand.
Maybe then it is easier to breathe.
Maybe then it is easier to climb. Maybe then it is easier to risk. Maybe then it is easier to create. Maybe then it is easier to grow. Maybe then it is easier to forgive. Maybe then it is easier to heal.
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.
