[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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Marathon
The Blade and the Breath
Step, Step, Step, Throw up, “Gentle on My Mind,” Step, Step, Step, Sunburn, Black toenails and blisters
6 hours and 59 minutes, a tin foil cape, a banana, a chocolate milk, a survivor’s bracelet, a finisher’s medal:
I will be tested again and again and again, the shape of life will explode, bloom, annihilate, flow: things will fall apart and back together
A marathon finish changes everything:
questions, clarity, darkness, light, doubt, faith, despair, hope: eyes on the sparrow, steps ordered, morning breaking
The center holds. Forever stardust and steel.
About 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.
