Don Mee Choi is author of the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony. She was a 2021 MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow, and has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.