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Mrs. Whiting Awards Announced! Here's our Seattle poet Don Mee Choi who was also a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry.

DON MEE CHOI

2011
Poetry
The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010) is poet Don Mee Choi’s first book, which our selectors found “a wildly surprising work describing the collapse of empire—bracing and invigorating. Its anger glows.” She also translates contemporary Korean women poets; her most recent is All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon (Action Books, 2011). She is a recipient of a Daesan Translation Grant, Korea Literature Translation Institute Translation Grant, an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship, and has served as poet-in-residence at the Henry Art Gallery. She holds a BFA and an MFA from the California Institute for the Arts and a PhD in Modern Korean Literature and Translation from Union Institute and University. An instructor in adult basic education at Renton Technical College, she lives in Seattle.

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