Don Mee Choi

Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, and lived in Hong Kong before moving to the United States. Choi is the author of the poetry collections Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024); DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), the first book in her KOR-US trilogy; and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), as well as several chapbooks and pamphlets. Choi currently serves as an advisory editor for Action Books: Korean Literature Series and teaches at Renton Technical College in Washington State. (Source)

Poems by Don Mee Choi

Wings of Return by Don Mee Choi

August 10, 2025

"In light, we all were ailing from separation and homesickness. In light, we had to find a way to settle down, as my mother said. In light, we lived like birds." — Don Mee Choi

Ugly=Nation by Don Mee Choi

April 25, 2016

“Beauty=Nation is possible. Ugly=Nation eventually grew up to be somewhat beautiful, but that was only from the perspective of its own kind” — Don Mee Choi