[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
Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake
latest posts
Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #55
Out of the Gate. Ragtime. John Prine. Many years ago, a life coach encouraged me to celebrate the completion of my memoir, The Stage Is On Fire. I had been working on the manuscript for well over three years in supportive writing classes, wit...
read more
Course Work
Living the Comma #27
Ragtime. Transcendence. Presidential Poetry. Beyond that road,/ Beyond this lifetime,/ That car full of hope/ Will always gleam/ With the promise of happiness/ And the freedom we'll live to know/ We'll travel with/ heads held high/ Just as far as...
read more
Publication
Out of the Gate
A life coach had encouraged me to celebrate the completion of my memoir, The Stage Is On Fire. I had been working on the manuscript for well over three years in supportive writing classes, with patient editors, in a coffee shop surrounded by fellow ...
read more
Paying Attention
Taking A Walk #9
Walking with John Prine during Derby Week If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that’s pretty good. — John Prine It feels good to laugh. At serious times, it is hard not to get paralyzed by seriousness. A...
read moreAbout 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.
