[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
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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Publication
Spit and Spaghetti #19
Pitches from Wind and Wall Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants Project Title Feeding The Good Wolf: Canis Rufus and the Power of Public Art Project Description I live next door to a public art installation, Canis Rufus, on the A...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #30
Graduation Season. Commencement. Famous Speeches. I’d say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder. — George Saunders, Commencement Address, Syracuse University, 2013 Dear Writer Friends, This is gra...
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Doing Philosophy
Thank You, Maxine Greene.
Dear Dr. Steedly, Belatedly, I thank you for your generous letter, and, more than that, for the opportunity to read your beautiful, scholarly dissertation. It is not only the overlap of our commitments. It is the authenticity of your "class notes"...
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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.
