Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: Mirror Nation (2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 PEN-Heaney Prize and received the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award; the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (2020); and Hardly War (2016). 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 is currently based in Berlin.