Don Mee Choi

Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.

Don Mee Choi
BornSeoul
NationalityAmerican
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsWhiting Awards

Life

Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and now lives in Seattle, where she works as an adult basic education instructor. In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon.[1]

Awards

Works

Books
  • The Morning News is Exciting, Action Books, 2010, ISBN 9780979975561
  • Petite Manifesto, Vagabond Press, 2014 (chapbook)
  • Hardly War, Wave Books, 2016
  • DMZ Colony, Wave Books, 2020

Translations
  • Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2005
  • Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women, Zephyr Press, 2006
  • All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2011
  • Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2014
  • I'm OK, I'm Pig! by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2014
  • Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2018 (winner of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize)

Anthology
  • Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee Choi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Hyesoon Kim, Trilingual Renshi, Vagabond Press, 2015, ISBN 9781922181442
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References
  1. http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/don-mee-choi Wave Poetry


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