[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: I, Too.
I, too, sing America.
Langston Hughes
The election air makes me think of Langston Hughes’ poem, I, Too. During election season we all sit at the table and sing and vote. People of all descriptions from across the country sit at the table and sing and vote. After the tireless efforts of generations of voting rights advocates, the song of America will be sung. Voting is the hope of the American democratic experiment.
The election occurs in the midst of everything that weighs heavy on our hearts. I turned to the thoughts of great servant leaders while remembering my own experience campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008. I looked to the words of John Lewis, Dolores Huerta, and Shirley Chisholm.
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.
