[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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I like their lady horse swagger,/ after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!/ But mainly, let’s be honest, I like/ that they’re ladies. As if this big/ dangerous animal is also a part of me,/ that somewhere inside the/ delicate/ skin of my body, the...
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Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. - Seng-Ts’an Real Is real your best friend, your spouse, your family? Is real anything you can put on your Resume? Is real your checking account? Is real the people w...
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“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.” ― Naomi Shihab Nye I spend my days between re-invention and poetry. At this time when we think about spring, resurrection, and resistance, considering re-invention ...
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Re-invention. Tenderness. Words. “Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.” ― Naomi Shihab Nye I spend my days between re-invention and poetry. At this time when we think about spring, resurrection, and resis...
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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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