[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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Your Own Language
You have to keep staying alive in your own language. Hug Hamilton I have worked hard to learn my own language. Our own language is not defined or constrained by syllables and words. Learning my own language has meant exploring my edge. Learning my...
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Weekly Wide Awake #3
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg April is National Poetry Month. I have made it a practice for a long time to find and write about poetry. From celebrating the craft of Poet Laureates, to mining the riches of n...
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Taking A Walk #6
MoLI. Poetry. Language It is National Poetry Month so my walks will take a literary turn. We will stroll through the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). In August of 2024, I spent two weeks in Ireland. One day began at the MoLI. I have ...
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Tenderness is in the hands.
Writing. Kintsugi. My Nana's hands. I wrote with both hands in a writing class a few years ago. We wrote using our right (dominant, for me) and our left (non-dominant) hands. I started the exercise with pen and paper and journal and then moved to ...
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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.
