[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 stories had come like genii
The stories had come like genii, living, wreathing from holes in the wall behind smoky hearths.
Ben Kiely
Stories are the stuff of genii. Part magic. Part imagination. Part memory. Sensory as much as substance. Wish as much as fact. Woven and living more than stamped and sealed. Built of deep knowing and dreams. Martha Beck writes about oneness — connecting with ourselves and one another as the foundation for all that is — and I think our stories allow us to be in oneness.
In that way, our stories — flowing hopefully between our heights and depths — create something more. They plant the seed of I am. They envision an as if. They build a not yet.
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.
