[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 Unspeakable Gift
The minister’s sermon was about love.
I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scared
and a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Church
has always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morning I
needed to be held in grace. I looked at the bulletin, and the sermon title
made me grit my teeth—“The Unspeakable Gift.” In a few hours I’d be
checking into the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda to participate
in a weeklong medical study. My mind was too preoccupied to worry about
love.
About Katie
From 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.
