[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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from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
The world believes its possibility deserves to be seen
Signe Gjessing
What if the possibility of the world was conspiring to be seen? That would mean we must pay attention to the world and really see it. That would mean possibility is powerful, and that creativity, imagination, and joy are forces to be reckoned with. That would me that we need to pay more attention to the things that build us up, rather than the things that tear us down. That would mean we have a responsibility to dwell in possibility, as Dickinson instructs. That would me we must explore our edge, whatever that edge may be. That would mean the as if, why, and not yet have life’s upper hand.
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.
