Selected Writing

Awards

2024 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Honorable Mention
2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Semi-Finalist
2021 SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Nonfiction
2020 Women’s National Book Association-SF First Place Winner in Nonfiction
2020 U.S. Fulbright Grant Semi-Finalist in Creative Writing
2018 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize Semi-Finalist
2018 Memoir Magazine #MeToo essay contest shortlisted essay

Publicity

“A Chat with Contemporary Bulgarian-American Writer, Ellie Bozmarova” - Kultura Magazine, 2020

Speaking

Presenter: Parallels, CreativeMornings San Francisco, 2025
Panelist: “Not Another Male Orgasm: Using the Shapes of Spiral, Meander, Explode in CNF” - Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), 2022
Presenter: “Creativity in Memoir Writing through Connection to Your True Self” - The Embodiment Conference, 2020
Podcast guest: “How to Reach Your Creative Goals” - Asked and Answered by Soul

More Writing

Personal Finance

• Opening a joint bank account to save for my wedding was emotionally daunting — but the actual process was easy - Business Insider, March 2025

• More crypto platforms are filing for bankruptcy–what does this mean for your crypto? - Business Insider, May 2023

• After 10 years paying for student loans, I know exactly what I should have done differently to get more from my money - Business Insider, May 2023

• I felt good about filing my taxes early, but I ended up owing more than $400 when I had to amend my return - Business Insider, February 2023

• As a Millenial, $20,000 in student loan debt forgiveness will give me time I’ve never had before - Business Insider, August 2022

• Spending $2,200 on a laptop felt wrong to me after growing up in a low-income family, but it also showed me it’s OK to invest in myself - Business Insider, November 2021

Travel

• Bulgaria: The Balkan Nation with Over 700 Hot Springs, Going (formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights), 2023

• The Best Digital Nomad Neighborhoods in Sofia, Nurall, 2023

• I visited the little-known European seaside town where cocktails cost £4 & summer hits 28C, The Sun UK, 2023

• What happened when I got to Hawaii, but my test results didn’t make it before arrival - SFGATE, 2020

Wellness

• Dating Someone With Depression and Bipolar Disorder Made Me Rethink My Own Mental Health, POPSUGAR, May 2023

• Six ways to take care of your mental health while traveling abroad, Ankha Magazine, May 2023

• Maybe you have been meditating wrong—making meditation a nourishing, embodied experience, Ankha Magazine, May 2023

Creative/Op-Ed

• The Fall of the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand - LAPP, 2021

• The Refugee Experience: Computer Pop-Ups, FlyPaper Magazine

• Jim - Santa Ana River Review, Poetry

• Elysian Fields - Radix, Poetry

• Anti-Trafficking Movement is Not Just a Trend - Daily Cal, Nonfiction

• The Couple - TIMBER, Fiction

‘The Couple’ by Elisaveta Bozmarova is fucked up and that is how we like it: "When they found a new fruit to try, like durian’s sweet-smelling cousin jackfruit or a rambutan sporting neon-green hairs, she would keep a few seeds in jars of water at the windowsill, to see if they would grow. Invariably, the pulpy root bulb would fall off after a few days and the seed would split in two. It reminded her of a clitoris, doubling her horror." - TIMBER Journal