Holly was born to Hungarian parents and has written about being greatly influenced by their stories of escaping their home country in 1956 and being refugees in America.
وُلدت كريستينا هولي لوالدين مجريين وكتبت عن تأثرها الكبير بقصصهم الخاصة بالفرار من وطنهم عام 1956 وكونهم لاجئين في أمريكا.