[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 #24
Fuchsia funnels. Remembering. Ada Limón. More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out/ of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s/ almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving/ their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate/ sky of Spri...
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Publication
Spit and Spaghetti #17
Pitches from Wind and Wall Ghost Writer A Surgeon’s Biography Having independently published a memoir a few years ago, I understand the risk and reward of the process. From this side of the journey and having blogged and slogged through a ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #51
Walking. Kintsugi. Poetry. Living the Comma #23 Dear Writer Friends, I want to write about what it means to walk forward. During the final week of Lent, I want to walk forward. As spring begins, I want to walk forward. After marches with mil...
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Paying Attention, Poetry
The Synthesis of Hyacinths and Biscuits
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. - Carl Sandburg April is National Poetry Month. I love to write about poetry. From celebrating the craft of Poet Laureates, to mining the riches of new poets’ work, to collecting Presidential I...
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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.
