[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
Prayers Like Shoes
I wear prayers like shoes. Pull’em on quiet each morning take me through the uncertain day. — Ruth Forman DOWNTOWN I have lived in cities for many years. Several cities. Several climates. Same situation. I have walked down my street befor...
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Poetry
Nature Aria
Scatter in me the seedsOf a thousand saplings.Let grow a grassy heaven.On my brow: a sun.This bliss is yours, LivingWorld, and alone it endures. From "Nature Aria" by Yi Lei Life is a gift. Bliss and joy are ours. Heaven is ours. We are Love. Love...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 226-230
Red. Secrets. Obligation. Redaction. Reach. EXERCISE 226: MONOCHROME articulate its nuances What’s your favorite color? Write a piece that gushes about the color, studies it, mourns with it (á la Maggie Nelson’s Bluets). Try ...
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Poetry
The Moment
In every instant there's dying and coming back around./ Muhammad said, This world// is a moment, a pouring that refreshes and renews itself so/ rapidly it seems continuous,// as a burning stick taken from the fire looks like a golden/ wire when you s...
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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.
