Don Mee Choi

In this Korean name, the family name is Choi.
Don Mee Choi
BornSeoul, South Korea
NationalityAmerican
EducationCalifornia Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsWhiting Award, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship

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

Life

Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. 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
  • Mirror Nation, Wave Books, (Publication date 4/2/24)

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

References

  1. ^ "Don Mee Choi, poet". Wave Books. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  2. ^ "Don Mee Choi". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  3. ^ "This Year's MacArthur 'Genius Grants' Were Just Announced—Here's The Full Winner List". NPR. September 28, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  4. ^ "Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced". Royal Society of Literature. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2023.

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