Course Work Archives - Page 17 of 31 - Katie Steedly

[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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When the Impossible Reminds Me

Throwing a cosmic dinner party. Begin with the impossible. I never thought it could happen, but … I was able to host a cosmic dinner party with Emily Dickinson, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, bell hooks, Empress Wu Zetian, Indira Gandhi, Cleop...

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Wordlessness

Wild New World I took a writing class with writer, psychologist, and coach Martha Beck, Wild New World. As Beck explains, “All of us have patterns where we’re trying to live our best lives and we make the same mistakes over and over. Wild New ...

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MONDAYS ARE FREE 071 — 075

Home. Falling. Curating. Ghosts. EXERCISE 071: GIVE ROUNDABOUT DIRECTIONS how to get somewhere Write a poem in which the speaker gives narrative directions to the reader, i.e., how to get somewhere, infused with stories. How to get ther...

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The Gift You Did Not Ask For

THE UNCHOSEN OBJECT I was diagnosed with Turner syndrome in 1987 at the age of 15. I did not talk about my diagnosis until I was in my 30s and participated in a week-long study at the National Institutes of Health. Shame, fear, and anger yield pow...

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