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Anna Smist

Sep 24, 2026

39:42
totally is.
39:44
I was trying to think as you were asking everybody else.
39:46
And I think the best start is sort of, you know, just reading stories, being told stories.
39:55
I think in my family from a young age, if you kind of wanted to be heard around the dinner table, it was a matter of do you have a good story to tell? And as a kid, I loved anything that kind of put me in a different world.
40:10
I remember being really fond of this series of a mouse detective named Geronimo Stilton, which is really unrelated to anything that I do now.
40:21
I very much live in the nonfiction world.
40:23
But, you know, just growing up, you kind of become enamored with the idea of where imagination can take you.
40:35
Would you like to share some of your work?

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