[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 Splendid Body
It knows it can’t exist forever, so/ it’s collecting as many flavors as it can—
Rebecca Lindenberg, The Splendid Body
saffron, rainwater, fish-skin, chive./ Do not distract it from its purpose,/ which is to feel everything it can find.
Feeling everything I can find. Feeling everything I can find. Feeling everything I can find. Compassion in the face of hurt. Kindness in the face of cruelty. Courage in the face of fear. Trust in the face of uncertainty. Center in the face of impermanence.
Rumi says the human being is a guest house. A guest house that welcomes, clears, and guides. Be grateful for it all, Rumi explains. That is the everything. The stars and the scar tissue. The golden cracks. The still small voice. The bend in the river. The perpetual dawn if we wake up.
About Katie
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.
