[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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Spit and Spaghetti #11
Pitches from Wind and Wall Washingtonian [A pitch I sent to an editor with whom I previously worked.] “The Unspeakable Gift” was published in August of 2013. That was a different time in so many ways. I am reaching out with an idea that ...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 181-185
Image. Events. Freedom. Rhyme. Call. EXERCISE 181: TEN BY TEN BY ONE each line with Write a poem ten lines long with ten syllables per line, each line with a concrete image (physical sensation), no adverbs, one continuous sentence. The ...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #17
Pitches. Lent. Nadia Bolz-Weber. Hello Writer Friends, This week, peer inside my writer's journey window. I write a weekly summary of a few pitches I send out to a breadth of publications — Spit and Spaghetti: Pitches from the Wind and t...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #45
Lent. Rhyme. Update. Living the Comma #17 Pitches. Lent. Nadia Bolz-Weber. As Lent begins, I want to share a Nadia Bolz-Weber project as possible writing inspiration, 40 Days of Good Shit (a lenten discipline for cranky people.) She des...
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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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