[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 #12
Joy. Song. Equanimity. Walking. Memory. “Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 066 — 070
Monsters. Owls. Rest. Honor. EXERCISE 066: MAKE A MONSTER all the things the monster can do Make a monster by taking a known animal or critter and multiplying one of its body parts (600-eyed horse; two-tongued pigeon; four-armpit uncle). De...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #11
The thing no one ever tells you about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. - Zadie Smith Joy is complicated. It is easy to dismiss amidst violence, forget amid noise, and neglect amid fear. It can be invisible in the heaviness of c...
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Taking A Walk #14
Still walking with Ross Gay Early this year, I took writing class with Jeannine Ouellette. We wrote a weekly short essay inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delights. We were encouraged to find and write about a delight every day, as Gay had done ...
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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.
