Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. In this episode, we talk with Poet, Writer, Teacher, Editor, Translator & Publisher Katerina Stoykova.

Bulgarian by birth, Katerina is a bilingual poet living in Kentucky and the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet’s Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024).

She is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, as well as the creator of the Accents podcast on WUKY. Katerina has served as the 2023–2024 Director of the Kentucky Book Festival and the Center for the Book in Kentucky, and is the 2025–2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

In this conversation, we explore her life, literary career, and contributions to poetry, publishing, and the arts.

Enjoy this insightful journey.

More on Katerina: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/katerina_stoykova

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Joe Dimino Podcaster/Artist

Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.