[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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Tag: Martha beck
Course Work, Doing Philosophy
Writing into Light
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. Martha Beck I have always been a creature of the light. I am profoundly curious. I love to create. I am builder. I lov...
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Course Work, Doing Philosophy
Confessions of a Story Slayer
Slay: 1. to kill by violence. 2. to destroy; extinguish.A standard definition of “to slay” Stories are being slayed left and right in our world. The stories of refugees seeking safety. The stories of innocent lives lost to gun violence. The st...
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Course Work, Doing Philosophy
A Gift From the Abyss
a·byssNoun: 1. a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm 2. bottomless pit 3. a wide or profound difference between people; a gulf 4. the regions of hell conceived of as a bottomless pit I have been living in the abyss for the last few years. I f...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
