[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
Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake
Category: Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Traveler There Is No Road
All our efforts must tend toward light Antonio Machado What does it mean to tend toward light? Does it mean to simply seek joy? Does it mean to engage in the work of the soul? Does it mean to be kind in all ways? Does it mean light lives at th...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
Mini Lessons
I have participated in more than 10 Kentucky Derby Festival mini Marathons. I have learned each one teaches lessons. There is the lesson of the value in consistent training. There is the lesson of tradition and family. (That lesson is closely related...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
Amor Fati
Inside every world there is another world trying to get out,/ and there is something in you that would like to discount this world./ The stars could rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts,/ and you would not know if you were ruining you...
read more
Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Dirtbag
There are so many different people to hate, so I keep things simple and hate everyone. Leigh Lucas, Dirtbag Hating everyone is so simple. As long as you hate everyone you don't have to find a particular reason for any of it. Hating everyone throws...
read moreAbout Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
