Katie Steedly - Page 31 of 355 - The Wide-Awakeness Project

[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

Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake

latest posts

Gratitude

Gratitude Conversation #5

Janice Nolen. Roxanne Schroeder-Arce. Lara MacGregor. 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 “...

read more

Course Work

MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 101—105

Fire. Rain. Earth. Air. EXERCISE 101: COMING UNDONE Book of Fire Write the opening paragraph to the Preface for the Book of Fire. The paragraph must consist entirely of incomplete images. Blossoms are fire. Mornings are fire. Leaves ...

read more

Weekly Wide-Awake

Weekly Wide-Awake #29

Poetry. Fiction. Repair. Interdependence. The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape. My mother ordered me again, and again, to sweep it clean. All that blooms must fall. I learned this not from the Dao, but from high school bio...

read more

Course Work

Not Everything Broken Stays That Way

The Poetry and Science of Repair I want to tell the story of my peroneal tendon. Our bodies are miracles. The surgery to repair my torn peroneal tendon was a miracle. It happened 8 months ago this week. The physical therapy in which I have been en...

read more