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Emmanuella Hristova

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Emmanuella Hristova was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the Bay Area. She is the third daughter to Bulgarian parents who immigrated to California shortly before she was born. She began drawing at the ripe age of four, and continued to study the fine arts through high school. In 2009, she received a Congressional award for her piece Boy in Red. She began writing poetry at age twenty-four when she was studying at UC Berkeley, where she earned her Bachelor's and Master's. Emmanuella spent two years as an English teacher in Richmond, California. During that time, she self-published her first poetry collection: The Day My Kisses Tasted Like Disorder. Her poems have been published in For Women Who Roar Issue 2: Power, 365 Days of Covid ...more

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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023

It’s been over a year since I wrote my last blog post.

The truth is, words are always swirling around in my head, aching to be written down, but I haven’t taken the chance to sit down and put pen to paper. Not until today, that is.

What’s happened in over a year?

For one, I started painting again. In a very slow attempt to wrap up the publication of my second poetry collection, I painted the book

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The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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