Don Mee Choi | |
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Born | Seoul, South Korea |
Nationality | American |
Education | California Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86 |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable awards | Whiting Award, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship |
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw on family history as well as archival material to interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the U.S." [1] In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon. [2]
Don Mee Choi | |
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Born | Seoul, South Korea |
Nationality | American |
Education | California Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86 |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable awards | Whiting Award, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship |
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw on family history as well as archival material to interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the U.S." [1] In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon. [2]