Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Kim Butin. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Kim, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on so far is the adoption series I wrote.

As a kid who went through the foster care system at a young age, I feel as if the actuality of how it affects us is often not spoken about. The foster care system in America is underfunded and over packed. Being taken away from your biological line is hard enough – but being put into the system and traumatized again and again is often something we choose not to look at.
The poetry series is a five part poem on my take of how it feels and how people I know have experienced the issue.
I shared it in hopes that it would make more of us feel less alone and shed more light to the people who haven’t experienced it.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m a writer who mostly focuses on poetry. I started writing at the age of nine and had my first (and only) poem published by eleven.

From the age of eleven up until two years ago I kept my writing to myself. After a year of being sat down by life (a broken ankle and then serious adverse reactions to getting Covid) something in me changed. I decided to try out sharing my work so I created a Facebook page and Instagram page for my writing. Through trial and error I’ve managed to grow a steady following.

I’m incredibly proud of how willing to be vulnerable with my poetry I’ve gotten.

As a child poets and authors managed to put into words emotions that I couldn’t explain properly.

This is my aim with sharing my work with the world.

If my poems make one person feel less alone or feel more understood – I’m happy,

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I definitely had to unlearn perfectionism and had to unlearn keeping certain emotions to myself.

I’ve always been a perfectionist by nature – unwilling to show anything that I didn’t deem perfect.

In writing, this is definitely something that will keep you plagued with self-doubt and lower your creativity.

Only showing the good stuff in your work does the same.

Life is messy and your writing is allowed to be as well.

This is definitely an ever-going effort.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I had some luck in this area. I used to work as a marketing assistant and learned quite a few tricks.

With Instagram, specifically, the frequency of posting is the most important.
If you don’t post for a few days your posts will be shown a substantial amount less.

Keeping track of the hashtags you use is the second most important tactic I’ve learned.

Growing a following is all about trial and error.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Kimmyfaewords
• Facebook: Kimmy Fae: Written Words

Image Credits
I use Adobe Express for all of my poetry