[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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Weekly Wide-Awake #32
Letters from Love, Whales, Marathon, Pictures Living The Comma #4 Dear Writing Friends, Greetings from a week about preparing to give Thanks. I am preparing to host and travel and visit. I am preparing to order Christmas Cards — my annual ...
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Course Work
Marathon
The Blade and the Breath Step, Step, Step, Throw up, “Gentle on My Mind,” Step, Step, Step, Sunburn, Black toenails and blisters 6 hours and 59 minutes, a tin foil cape, a banana, a chocolate milk, a survivor’s bracelet, a finisher’s me...
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Gratitude
Call Out the Good: A Gratitude Conversation with Seana Murphy
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...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 121-125
Stone Crabs. Whale Songs. Babies. Silence. Mashed Potatoes. EXERCISE 121: THE FOOD INSIDE THE FOOD wonderful poem Write a poem that explains what you fed who you loved. And/or if you want, what who loved you fed you. Stone Crabs I ha...
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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.
