[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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Glorious Fire
If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.
Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things
I have burnt it all down at several times in my life. Times in when uprooted geography and fresh starts and new beginnings become the goal. Those moments have mainly happened when I have felt isolated — when shame and fear and anger have fed silence.
There is something comforting in the idea that our pain can be used to connect. That we are not alone and we can burn together and produce a glorious fire. That in burning we release. That in burning we grow.
In a room lit with pain, scar tissue signifies strength and healing. In a room lit with pain, secrets carry no weight. In a room lit with pain, we dance in the light.
About 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.
