[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: Write Into Light
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck
I have always been a creature of the light. I am profoundly curious. I love to create. I am builder. I love to share my light with others. I am a plant who grows toward the sun. I believe life’s cracks are where the light gets in. Thank you Leonard Cohen. I know the light is big enough to wrap its arms around us all. Because of this, I write.
I took a writing class, Write Into Light, with author, coach, and psychologist Martha Beck. My entire life, writing has been an infinite passageway out of the shadows. Writing has been the through line of my story. Writing has been the refuge, connection, courage, clarity, and joy I have sought. Writing has been where I have attempted to make sense in a world where sense hides under soft tissue and rocks.
I wrote these pieces included in this Weekly Wide-Awake during Write Into Light. It is the perfect time to revisit the writing — the questions, advice, whispers, screams, and songs. It is the perfect time to create and edit and revise. It is the perfect time to weigh and lift up and reflect. It is the perfect time to look inward and shut my eyes and allow light in.
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.
