[2] Holzman is the author or co-author of multiple books including The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world (2018),[3] Vygotsky at work and play (2009),[4][5] Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind (1999),[6] and Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy (2003).
[7] She and Newman co-authored the widely cited volume Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary scientist (1993)[8][9] and The end of knowing: A new developmental way of learning (1997).
[11][12] After graduation, Holzman completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University where she worked with Michael Cole,[13] and later joined the faculty of Empire State College, SUNY.
In 2010, she became the chair of Global Outreach at the All Stars Project,[16] which helps create opportunities for positive youth development.
[22] In 2018, she became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance at Lloyd International Honors College, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.