About
The poet’s ‘rosebud power’ and honesty are dynamic, as is her grasp of history, family, identity, and eros.
-Linda Norton
Jiwon Choi is the author of One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons and I Used To Be Korean, which both deal with her identity as a Korean in the diaspora. Her third book of poems, A Temporary Dwelling, will be out from Spuyten Duyvil in June 2024. She is a long time gardener and coordinator at the Pacific Street Brooklyn Bear’s Garden near Downtown Brooklyn, where she collaborates with local organizations to bring workshops and cultural arts/music events into the garden. She started her garden’s first poetry reading series, Hanging Loose Outpost: Poets Read in the Garden, to support local emerging writers and poets with live reading events in a safe, outdoor space. Her work can be found in publications such as Heavy Feather Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Rigorous, and Hanging Loose Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.