[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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(The Mothman Watches a TV Movie and Resolves to Steal the Declaration of Independence)
Does it have to be true, that everything we touch, we break a little?
Robert Wood Lynn
What if, as Leonard Cohen suggests, there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in? I want to explode the idea of what it means to break. I believe our breaking is our light. Let me explain. Breaking is the natural flow of falling apart and back together. In breaking, we soften. We reframe. We reconstitute. We reclaim. We rekindle. We shine.
Through breaking we invite our whole selves to be seen and loved. Through breaking we join the chorus of the broken, singing and living deeply and joyfully through it all. Through breaking, pain transforms. Through breaking our authentic light shines. Through breaking, we tap into our strength and fire and steel and imagine and create and build. Though breaking, trash becomes treasure. Through breaking, it all becomes useful and beautiful.
About Katie
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.
