[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
Doing Philosophy
Counting Her Minutes: Publishers Weekly Talks With Kate Bowler
Work makes my world bigger. It gives me a sense that while we are all broken, we are broken open to each other. Work lets me connect. And there is joy in paying attention, not necessarily to find solutions but to make meaning out of a situation. When...
read more
Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali: The Future of Hope
I think about being an incurable optimist as being a really, fundamentally, a story about hope. And it’s hope for me, it’s hope for you, that hope is a story about all of us that God puts in the future, ever before us and always with us and alway...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #57
Dear Sugar. Graduation. Wide-Awakeness. The future has an ancient heart. — Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar fell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. tiny beautif...
read more
Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 226-230
Red. Secrets. Obligation. Redaction. Reach. EXERCISE 226: MONOCHROME articulate its nuances What’s your favorite color? Write a piece that gushes about the color, studies it, mourns with it (á la Maggie Nelson’s Bluets). Try ...
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.
