[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
latest posts
Paying Attention
Weekly Wide-Awake: Seeking Awe in Ireland
In June of this year, in the heat of a summer festival in my neighborhood, I said, "I would love to visit Ireland" to a friend/editor of a lifestyle magazine sitting at the same table welcoming people to our church. Florida State would be playing Geo...
read more
Gratitude
Planting A Seed: A Gratitude Conversation With Justin Lawrence Sullivan
Why Gratitude In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry in a burning world? To train myself, in ...
read more
Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: A Law of History in an Unfinished World
There's an adage a historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages. The adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all...
read more
Gratitude
We Are Not an Island: A Gratitude Conversation with Paula Salerno Herbert
Why Gratitude? In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry in a burning world? To train myself...
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.
