[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: Having a Coke with You
I look/ at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world From Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You" Love is about having a Coke together. Love is about paying attention and being amazed and telling about it. Love is abou...
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Poetry
The Heart has many Doors
The Heart has many Doors -/ I can but knock -/ For any sweet "Come in"/ Impelled to hark -/ Not saddened by repulse,/ Repast to me/ That somewhere, there exists,/ Supremacy - Emily Dickinson Knock and the door will open. Seek and you will find. As...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Morning Poem
Every morning a world is created. - Mary Oliver Read Weekly Wide-Awake: Mary Oliver Subscribe to Weekly Wide-Awake...
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Poetry, Publication
The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift.Mary Oliver "The Unspeakable Gift," my essay in the Washingtonian Magazine...
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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.
