Born in Seoul, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US Trilogy: Mirror Nation (Wave Books 2024 & And Other Stories 2025), which won the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award and was shortlisted for the PEN-Heaney Prize 2025; the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (2020 & 2025); and Hardly War (2016 & 2025). She has received fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
