[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
Beachcomber Nocturne
This sea: a Chevy engine revving high/ reminding me how everything’s design. Lupita Eyde-Tucker In the midst of it all, it helps to remember everything's design. Not in an "Everything happens for a reason" — "It's all good" kind of way, but mo...
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Poetry
I Wish It Were Enough to Be —
If only what’s happening to me/ were like that cattail out the window,// soft as childhood sadness,/ catching the light.// Or, how earlier––the small gray rocks along the shore,/ as I approached, became birds. Fay Dillof Adult sadness has h...
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Poetry
Home Is A Women
our ride is silent from Kampala to Lirahe gives me a curious glance from the rearview mirror at my many faces looking at me while I hold on to my suitcasewhile I carry all the women living inside of meI carry them home Arao Ameny I have traveled a...
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Poetry
I Want Him to Know
I want him to know I am not lonely, I have ghosts, I have my illnesses, I have a mouthful of half-languages, & blood thick with medications, doctors line up to hear my crooked heart ― Safia Elhillo, The January Children I am not lonely, 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.
