[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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Poetry
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Bee! I'm expecting you!/ Was saying Yesterday/ To Somebody you know/ That you were due -// The Frogs got Home last Week -/ Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back -/ The Clover warm and thick -// You'll get my Letter by/ The seventeenth; Reply/...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #39
Good Shit. Grace. Nadia Bolz-Weber. Suleika Jaouad — “If you could offer one permission slip to everyone in the thick of it, what would it be?” Nadia Bolz-Weber — “You have permission to experience joy right now. It’s ok. I know al...
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Course Work
WANTED Week Three
The Ohio River I am always seeking home. I was born and raised on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. Speed boats and rope swings and King Fish. Generations and Derbies and Cardinals. Calliopes and Barges and Fossil Beds. Ohio River Valley all...
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Music
To Be Young Gifted and Black
Oh, but my joy of todayIs that we can all be proud to say"To be young, gifted and blackIs where it's at"To Be Young Gifted and Black" performed by Nina Simone I can not imagine what it must feel like to be a black person in the United States toda...
read moreAbout Katie
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.
