Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy published by Wave Books (US) and And Other Stories (UK & EU): Mirror Nation, 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 translation of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
She was selected as one of the inaugural 2021 Royal Society of Literature International Writers.
She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry. Please visit Zephyr Press, Action Books and New Directions.
She has served as a translator for the International Women's Network Against Militarism (IWNAM). Please visit and learn about IWNAM's transnational work and issues that impact women, children, and the environment.
Visit her pages at Wave Books, And Other Stories, Whiting Awards, Lannan Foundation, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and MacArthur Foundation.