[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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Weekly Wide-Awake #46
Love. Diagnosis. Heartbreak. Living the Comma #18 Love. Stevie Wonder. Mondays. Ross Gay. Love’s in need of love today/ Don’t delay/ Send yours in right away/ Hate’s goin’ ‘round/ Breaking many hearts/ Stop it please/ Before it’...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #45
Lent. Rhyme. Update. Living the Comma #17 Pitches. Lent. Nadia Bolz-Weber. As Lent begins, I want to share a Nadia Bolz-Weber project as possible writing inspiration, 40 Days of Good Shit (a lenten discipline for cranky people.) She des...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #44
Bell Hooks. Bad Bunny. Bad Poetry. Love. “If love is really the active practice—Buddhist, Christian, or Islamic mysticism—it requires the notion of being a lover, of being in love with the universe … To commit to love is fundamentally to ...
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Summer of Soul
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different race...
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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.
