[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
Perpetual Spring
Even the prick of the thistle, queen of the weeds, revives your secret beliefin perpetual spring,your faith that for every hurt there is a leaf to cure it.from "Perpetual Spring" by Amy Gerstler I...
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Tenderness is in the hands.
Writing. Kintsugi. My Nana's hands. I wrote with both hands in a writing class a few years ago. We wrote using our right (dominant, for me) and our left (non-dominant) hands. I started the exercise with pen and paper and journal and then moved to ...
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Strength, Courage, and Wisdom
An ecstatic delight It’s been inside of me all along, the quiet voice that knows, the abiding hands that hold, the fearless heart that breaks — in the cracks and crevasses of a body seeking to breathe in peace, breathe out love, breathe in pea...
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Poetry
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Bee! I'm expecting you!/ Was saying Yesterday/ To Somebody you know/ That you were due -// The Frogs got Home last Week -/ Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back -/ The Clover warm and thick -// You'll get my Letter by/ The seventeenth; Reply/...
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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.
