[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, Weekly Wide-Awake
Dirtbag
There are so many different people to hate, so I keep things simple and hate everyone. Leigh Lucas, Dirtbag Hating everyone is so simple. As long as you hate everyone you don't have to find a particular reason for any of it. Hating everyone throws...
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Poetry
The Judgment Tale
Over the growing shadows fell the dead weight of light. Valzhyna Mort, The Judgment Tale Light's dead weight. Is that simply the weight of sight? Is that the weight of truth, transparency, shine, knowing, stillness? Is there a difference betwee...
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Poetry
Ode to Small Towns
This where I ran the dream-colored woods/ and did not know why. This where I believe/ a dog is buried. This where I danced/ in the long moonlight of a field./ This where a woman planted ghost peppers./ This where she thin her blood with root water. T...
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Poetry
Locution/Location
This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing forms a passageway between two shores.—Hélène Cixous, “Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing” She sings the lette...
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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.
