DOMA founder and editor-in-chief Caroline Murphy was born and raised in Maine, and after serving as an ETA in Pernik from 2016 to 2017, she now teaches ESL at the American University in Bulgaria.

Name three things that fulfill you.
Coffee, poetry, and walking barefoot in grass.

What is your favorite place that you’ve visited in Bulgaria?
Balchik Palace on the Black Sea coast.

Give us some reading recommendations.
Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfiah Faizullah and Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns by Andrea Gibson, two books of poetry that changed my life.

If you were a plant, which one would you be and why?
I took a Buzzfeed quiz for this one – I’m a dandelion because I “go where the wind takes me.”