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Podcast: Living the Dream with Curveball
Episode: Crafting Words That Matter: Katerina Stoykova on Poetry, Publishing, and Persistence
Description: Send us Fan MailWhat happens when an eight-year-old girl from communist Bulgaria decides she's going to be a poet? Katerina Stoykova joins us to share her remarkable journey from the shores of the Black Sea to becoming a published author, publisher, and literary community builder in Kentucky.Katerina's story begins with a pivotal childhood moment when a visiting poet sparked an unshakable desire to write poetry. With disarming honesty, she recounts telling her mother about her dream and immediately writing her first poem, determined to prove herself. This early conviction carried her through years...