[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
Burning the Old Year
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space. I begin again with the smallest numbers.From Naomi Shihab Nye's "Burning the Old Year"...
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Poetry
Year’s End
These sudden ends of time must give us pause. We fray into the future, rarely wroughtSave in the tapestries of afterthought.More time, more time. Barrages of applause Come muffled from a buried radio.The New-year bel...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Living the Comma #10
Words. Letters. Resolutions. Dear Writer Friends, “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language/ And next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I have chosen words of the year for many years. Ea...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 146—150
Facts. Dedications. Acknowledgements. Browsing. Corrections. EXERCISE 146: SKIP THE FACT CHECK STEP the world without referring (resorting!) Today you’re going to write a piece—poem, essay, essayette, monologue, whatever—about somethi...
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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.
