Carol is the author of two books of poetry, A Beautiful Hell, New Rivers Press, 2016, and A Certain Kind of Forgiveness, Meadowlark Press, 2019. Her work has won the Many Voices Project Award for poetry and the Birdy Poetry Prize.
A Beautiful Hell has since been adapted to the stage by Laurie J Baker with the support of Theatre B and Humanities North Dakota.
Carol was finalist in the 2024 Press 53 Poetry Contest, 2024 NDSU Press Plains and Prairies Contest and 2017 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in Gypsy Cab, Red Weather, North Dakota Quarterly, Wintercount, Lake Region Review, Dust and Fire, Dash and NDSU Magazine, and in the anthologies, Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods, The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them, Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan, and Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood. Ratchenski, a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner/operator of The Center for Compassion and Creativity, lives in Fargo, ND.
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