[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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Spit and Spaghetti #7
Pitches from Wind and Wall Ageist Please accept my application for Editorial Lead. I am a 54-year-old woman living the 100th or so iteration of my dream. I have taught high school drama, completed a Ph.D. studying wide-awakeness, authored pr...
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Spit and Spaghetti #6
I’m On My Way to Start a New Life: My Search for Steel and Delight This story is about what it means to start a new life. Seek a geographic fix. Burn it all down. Mend a broken heart. Consider the way our past leaps impact our current lives. ...
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Spit and Spaghetti #5
Pitches from Wind and Wall Create prompts for the game “Scenes From A Hat” Thank you for the opportunity to explore creatively engaging with language and fun. As a writer who has spent years writing in formal contexts, I jump at the chance ...
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Spit and Spaghetti #4
Pitches from Wind and Wall Feeding the Good Wolf — An Oral History of B. Mifflin Hood “Why write love poetry in a burning world? To train myself, in the midst of a burning world, to offer poems of love to a burning world.” — Katie ...
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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.
