[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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Category: Course Work
Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 066 — 070
Monsters. Owls. Rest. Honor. EXERCISE 066: MAKE A MONSTER all the things the monster can do Make a monster by taking a known animal or critter and multiplying one of its body parts (600-eyed horse; two-tongued pigeon; four-armpit uncle). De...
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Books Falling, Course Work
Big Magic
“Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.” Elizabeth Gilbert I have paid attention to Elizabeth Gilbert for many years. I read her books, subscribe to her Substack, and follow her social med...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 061 — 065
EXERCISE 061: THE MAGIC OF MEMORY, PART 1 early friendship and sensory detail Set a timer for ten minutes and jot down three resonant scenes that involve friendship(s) in your youth. Now look at them and circle the one you’re most drawn to r...
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Course Work, Doing Philosophy
A Voice From The Stillness
My guardian angel told me to be still and know. Be still and know. Be still and know. Stillness as the synapses of the brain connecting. Stillness as truth and peace. Stillness as awe and attention. Stillness as true love. How do we find stillness...
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.
