[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Poetry
Grace
for Darlene Wind and James Welch I could say grace was a woman with time on her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory. But in that dingy light it was a promise of balance. We once again understood the talk of animals, and spring was lean a...
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Wonder Woman
She strutted by in all her strength and glory, invincible,eternal, and when I stood to clap (because who wouldn’t have),she bowed and posed like she knew I needed a myth—a woman, by a river, indestructible.”From Ada Limón's "Wonder Woman" A...
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The Last Thing
I knowyou don’t always understand,but let me point to the firstwet drops landing on the stones,the noise like fingers drummingthe skin. I can’t help it. I willnever get over making everythingsuch a big deal.From Ada Limon's "The Last Thing" I ...
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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.
