[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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Course Work
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
You, Me, and the Space Between Tessie — You look beautiful. I always knew you would be driving a Mercedes.Liat — This time without Tequila hidden behind the front tire.Tessie — What was the name of your puppy?Liat — Mae Ling.Tessie — How...
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Doing Philosophy
Dipping Toward the Immeasurable
“And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and the sky itself, and to the floating bird. I too leave the fret and enclosure of my own life. I too dip myself towa...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #37
Immeasurable Light Living the Comma #9 Love. Magic. The Winter Solstice. Dear Writer Friends, “For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.” — Kate Baer, from What Kin...
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Publication
Spit and Spaghetti # 3
Art As Resistance — Public Art and the Atlanta Beltline I live on the Atlanta Beltline — a 22-mile urban trail hosting one of the largest temporary public art exhibits and galleries in the United State. I have lived in Bellingham, Austin, Wash...
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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.
