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Steven G Kukla

Biography

Steven G Kukla is retired and lives with his wife Cynthia in Litchfield, Connecticut. He is grateful to fill his days with his passions: family, travel, yoga, hiking, figurative stone carving, clay modeling, mineral collecting, writing, AI media creation, and rudimentary Italian.

Passions

Family Travel Yoga Hiking Stone Carving Clay Modeling Mineral Collecting Writing AI Media Creation Rudimentary Italian

As a Sculptor

Working in marble, limestone, slate, alabaster, onyx, soapstone, and clay, Steven combines traditional stone carving techniques with pneumatic air chisels to create figurative and abstract works. His sculpture spans over a decade of serious practice, including a direct-carving workshop in Valdicastello, Italy — near the famous marble quarries of Carrara.

As a Writer

Strong Roots, Good Fruit is a fantasy graphic novella, available in English and Italian versions. Far more than memoir, it reveals the sacred values and strength of the villagers of Monteleone di Puglia — its women's defiance and courage against religious intolerance and fascist oppression, the angst of despair and the decision to emigrate across the sea, its embrace of refugees and migrants, and its rebirth as a true beacon of acceptance and peace. And through it all, a fictionalized legend of a guardian lioness spirit weaves throughout each act, now immortalized in Carrara marble, with a message to humanity revealed on the final page.

As an AI Composer

Steven has transformed the poems of Strong Roots, Good Fruit into two albums of original songs — writing all lyrics, song structures, arrangements, and vocal and instrument choices. The music uses Suno AI to generate vocals and instrumentation, mastered with MasterChannel and distributed by DistroKid to over 20 major music platforms.

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