[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: Poetry
Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Let’s Fall In Love
These days everything seems so fake,Even the words of love comes with asterisk conditions applyThat the beautiful words-"Let's fall in love..... "Seems less precious these days. Moumita Mitra I want reclaim the preciousness of falling in love. By ...
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Course Work, Poetry
When I Was a Glacier
A moment ago I movedsomething (not particularlylarge) to the other sideof the table and feltso old and immenseand in control. From "When I Was A Glacier" by Emily Skillings When I was a glacier I felt larger than life itself. I felt old, immense, ...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts, Poetry
The Gate
This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me.And I’d say, What?And he’d say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich.And I’d say, What?And he’d say, This, sort of looking around.From "The Gate" by Marie Howe In con...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Object Permanence
Oh, how we entertain the angels/ with our brief animation. Nicole Sealey I am interested in the relationship between impermanence and permanence, birth and death, light and dark, truth and fiction, happiness and sadness, brevity and length. Where ...
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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.
