Holly Karapetkovas poetry, prose, and translations from the Bulgarian have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including 32 Poems, New Madrid, Mid-American Review, River Styx, 150 Contemporary Sonnets, and the International Poetry Anthology (Slovenia).
Her first full-length collection of poetry is Words We Might One Day Say from Washington Writers Publishing House.
Holly Karapetkova has one foot in Bulgaria and the other firmly dug into American soil, her head is somewhere in between, beautifully above us all, in the clouds.
Words We Might One Day Say is a simply sublime book of poetry.
These poems are a unique hybrid of ultra-realism, magic-realism, political manifesto, romantic ballad, surrealist fancy…
Karapetkova lives in the United States but her European/Bulgarian self is never far from these poems.
Karapetkova has it all going on in these engaging, insightful and explosive poems. She is the author of over twenty books and graphic stories for children and young adults.
Karapetkova has that keen eye that is at home in two countries, familiar enough to look into those chasms that exist on the border between the two cultures.
What Karapetkova finds in those spaces is beautiful and haunting.
She is an Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, VA, and teaches courses in literature, composition, and creative writing at Marymount University.
Holly Karapetkova earned her BA from Rice University, her MFA from Georgia State University, and her PhD from the University of Cincinnati.
Her poems and translations have appeared in national literary journals, including The Crab Orchard Review, The Formalist, and The Marlboro Review. She has presented at conferences held by the International Reading Association and the National Association for the Education of Young Children, among others.
Her children's poetry has been described as "refreshing," and "engaging."
