[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 Wide-Awakeness Project
Wide-awakeness is not my idea. Philosophers, scholars, and artists have been exploring it for generations. It happens in the middle of the aesthetic, spiritual, emotional, in and of experience. It is where paying attention meets consciousness.
The work of Maxine Green introduced me to wide-awakeness. Drawing from philosophers like Schütz, Merleau-Ponty, Dewey, and others, Green asserts that imagination makes empathy possible. In that frame, the work of wide awakeness defines our life project, builds imagination, and shapes a world where ideas grow, interpretations and analyses flow, and creativity thrives. This is about world building. I have dedicated more than twenty years of my life to exploring wide-awakeness and believe we must intentionally create pathways for wide-awakeness — spaces of imagination and empathy — in our world. That is the point of the Wide-Awakeness Project.
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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.
