Don Mee Choi 

Winner, 2020 National Book Awards

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony, Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship.
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DMZ Colony

ISBN 9781940696959 Wave Books

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. More about this book >

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Don Mee Choi 

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ ColonyHardly WarThe Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize. (photo credit: Song Got)

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