[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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Carnivalesque
Night brings its own laws, joys in watching us fumble to learn, in commanding our bodies to do what our waking minds could not dream of.
Katherine Gaffney, Carnivalesque
Night brings its own laws. That is my 3 o’clock anxiety, fear, hope, rush, and flame kaleidoscope. A cut glass picture. Part mystery. Part beauty. Part window. Part vision. Part stillness.
The Night tells me her secrets. Her wisdom is a puzzle slowly solved. Her grace revealed piece by piece. I fight, settle, roll, cry, and breathe. Truth emerges over time. The not yet holds more faith than fear. I wake different.
Night commands a deeper knowledge
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.
