[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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Course Work
Living the Comma #26
A Celebration of Life. Exploring Calling. More Poetry. Listen, everyone has a chance./ Is it spring, is it morning?/ Are there trees near you,/ and does your own soul need comforting?/ Quick, then – open the door and fly on your heavy feet; the...
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Poetry
[in Just-]
in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when th...
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Poetry
Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World
Why write love poetry in a burning world?/ To train myself, in the midst of a burning world/ to offer poems of love to a burning world. From Katie Ferris' "Why Write Poetry in a Burning World" I write love poetry. The practice of writing, for me,...
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Doing Philosophy
Nature’s Sway
When the wind stops,/ the trees still move,/ the way my heart creaks,/ long after it bends. - Mark Nepo I saw a bumper sticker that read, "If you are not pissed off, you are not paying attention." There are many things to be angry about right ...
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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.
