Selected texts and images from Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi copyright © 2024 and 2025 by Don Mee Choi. Reprinted by permission of the author and Wave Books and And Other Stories.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: Mirror Nation, which won the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award; the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony; and Hardly War. She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Her forthcoming book of prose poems and essays, Freely Frayed, is scheduled to be published in 2026. She is currently based in Berlin.