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Transformed by God's Grace.
Gut-level faith is the theme in my writing.
Vulnerable and true.
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Stephanie S. Sawyer is tenacious in her journey to pass on the victory of overcoming obstacles. Health, cultural, and spiritual, Stephanie addresses each with heartfelt passion through experience. Stephanie retains honesty, encourages others, and advocates for a higher public understanding, particularly addressing epilepsy. Her inborne passion rises naturally for these opportunities. Retaining a Christ centered perspective in her work, she easily shares inspiration and victory with others. Stephanie's faith and music, particularly piano, will always be a theme in her work.
Facing Me: The impossible becoming possible is the victory in Stephanie's life as she dared to hope. After years of living with weekly epileptic seizure invasion, Stephanie was set free from shame through the removal of a segment of her brain, the right temporal lobe. Her ensuing search for a new identity led to a spiritual calling and new life. Her surrender despite doubt to that calling led her down a path of miracles to her beloved gift in music. It is now her ministry to share the joy of music through her piano studio and in community performance. "Hope is ours if we will take it and believe." c. Sawyer
IMPRINTS: God’s grace surmounts every threshold. Stephanie Sawyer gives account of God acting in her life to break boundaries and confront arenas of fear and preconceptions. People, places, settings of new and threatening horizons become beacons of light as holy events are unveiled. Transformation is the unifying theme.
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Birth Place
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Houston, TX U.S.A.
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Accomplishments
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Recognized: 2003 "Making a Difference" by EFA: Certificate of Recognition for "Making a Difference" awarded "to Stephanie Sawyer for her outstanding accomplishments and contributions" by the national offices of the Epilepsy Foundation.
BA, Music, Moores' School of Music, University of Houston;
Houston Music Teachers' Association;
Order of the Daughters of the King
TexasAuthors.com
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The Tomball Magnolia Tribune features Stephanie on Decemeber 31, 2007 and her new release IMPRINTS: Stories That Solicit a Response. Featured in The Homestead of Tomball/Magnolia, TX, May 2007.
The Houston Chronicle, featured:8-25-02;
The Journals, May '06; Essays
The Journals, January '06; Essays and Poems
New Works Review, Spring '06;
New Works Review, Jan-Mar '05;
New Works Review, April-June '05;
Tomball Potpourri June 22,'05;
Recovery Today,March '04 vol.9, #3;
Epilepsy Foundation of SouthEast Texas, Winter 2002;
Tomball Magnolia Tribune:5-12-03;
Time Warner cable: Christmas Day 2002;
ABC news, Houston KTRK, January 2003;
Speaker: Houston Writers' League; Order of the Daughters of the King Assembly, Spring 2008.
Presentations:various. Hope;Overcoming obstacles
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Publish America
The conquest over shame, discrimination, and a lifetime of seizure activity is presented by Stephanie S. Sawyer in autobiography Facing Me. The challenge of brain surgery is candidly portrayed in this outpouring of hope, pain, faith, frustration, and ultimate victory with jubilation. The road of hope and courage outlines the mental, emotional, and physical challenges of dealing with weekly seizure activity due to epilepsy. The resulting surge of life, career, heightened IQ, and transformation of character are captured as health is experienced for the first time. Inspiration. Health. Autobiography.
"If this book does not inspire you, then nothing will." - Midwest Book Review
IMPRINTS: Stories That Solicit a Response (ISBN 1604415223) God's grace in life's harshest predicaments is featured as boundaries are broken and stigmas are shattered. Inspiration.
The Journals
publication of inspirations in which some of Stephanie Sawyer's are included. See essays and poems.
New Works Review
various articles of Stephanie Sawyer have been featured in this top literary ezine.
The Homestead
Feature of Stephanie Sawyer at her state of the art grand piano in the May 2007 edition. Facing Me is the inspiration for the editor in this brief review of Stephanie's life. Strength, faith, and determination are the key topics.
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