[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 021 — 025
LANGUAGE. HISTORY. HUMOR. EXERCISE 021: SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE a poem that embeds Write a poem that embeds a language other than English inside of it. “Bien dans sa peau.” She said. Comfortable in your own skin. “Bien d...
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Poetry
The Last Thing
I knowyou don’t always understand,but let me point to the firstwet drops landing on the stones,the noise like fingers drummingthe skin. I can’t help it. I willnever get over making everythingsuch a big deal.From Ada Limon's "The Last Thing" I ...
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Gratitude
Gratitude Conversations #1
David Sawyer, Liesl Carter, Seana Murphy 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 “Why write love...
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Doing Philosophy
A Firefly of Love
Who knows that in the depth of the ravine of the mountain of my hidden heart a firefly of my love is aflame. Abutsu-Ni There are a million names for the firefly of my love. My love is called hope. My hope rests gently in the arms of trust a...
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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.
