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Living the Literary Life Milton author Kimberly Brock named 2013 Georgia Author of the Year
By KATIE VANBRACKLE
katie@northsidewoman.com
DEVON MORGAN/PHOTOSYNTHESIS ATLANTA
12 | northsidewoman.com | april2014
K
imberly Brock is a busy suburban mom. Running a household, raising three kids and teaching private Pilates lessons in her Milton home keeps her on the go. Yet she still finds time to listen to her creative muse – that persistent inner voice that compels her to drop everything from time to time and lose herself in a compelling story of her own making. Brock is a born storyteller. She remembers convincing elementary school classmates that her great-great grandfather was a Cherokee chief whose ghost haunted the mounds of dirt bordering the school playground, which in her story, was the cursed site of a long-forgotten Cherokee burial ground. Brock’s principal eventually made her fess up and apologize when the other children
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