Katerina Stoykova is 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). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, where she has selected, edited, and published close to 100 poetry collections.
Katerina acted in the lead roles for the independent feature films Proud Citizen, Fort Maria and Other Houses all three co-directed by Thom Southerland. Her poems have been translated into German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Bangla, Farsi, and The Eight Floor Balcony – a volume of her selected poems translated into Arabic by acclaimed poet Khairi Hamdan, was published by Dar Al Biruni press.
Katerina served as the 2023-2024 Director of the Kentucky Book Festival and is the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.