[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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Poetry
See It Through
When you’re up against a trouble,/ Meet it squarely, face to face;/ Lift your chin and set your shoulders,/ Plant your feet and take a brace./ When it’s vain to try to dodge it,/ Do the best that you can do;/ You may fail, but you may c...
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That Everything’s Inevitable
In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum/ I am waiting, like an animal,/ For poetry. Katy Lederer, That Everything's Inevitable I live in the temper and tantrum. I stroll in the well-kept arboretum. I seek poetry. I am talking ab...
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Poetry
You Can’t Have It All
There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother's,/ it will always whisper, you can't have it all,/ but there is this. Barbara Ras, You Can't Have It All What is all? Where do balance and rest and center and discipline fit into a...
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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.
