Hedgie Choi is the translator of Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young and the cotranslator of Hysteria by Kim Yideum, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. Her poetry can be found in Poetry, Catapult, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her fiction can be found in NOON, American Short Fiction, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.
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Salvage . . . Laying Down the Groundwork Mutualism Freaking Out Equal and Opposite Party Time Never Mind The Listening Section Brutal Honesty Nourished and Enriched Tyrannosaur Affirmations Phases . . . Holiday The Happy Middle In Some Ways I Have Changed In My Natural Habitat Transformation What's Up Buttercup Orchestrated Intent Practice Epimetheus at the Tattoo Parlor . . . Prometheus to His Liver Growing Overnight When Someone Says a Place on Stage and Only a Handful of People in the Audience Emit an Uncertain WOOOOOOO Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Have a Nice Day Temptation Martha's Vineyard In That Life Close Friends Epic Botched Corinthians, Retconned Corinthians Testimony . . . Tenderly For Seeing in the Dark Horror Minus Terror Volunteering Vespertine Is the Name of a Restaurant in LA with an 18-Plus-Course Tasting Menu Child of God Poem for Jackson What about Hell Then When I Wake up from a Bad Dream I Am Ravenous Ichor, Meaning the Fluid That Flows like Blood in the Veins of Gods, as in Greek Mythology, or, a Watery Discharge from a Wound Lessons . . . Archetype Summer in Austin, TX Manners Plagiarism New Year's Eve Last Night Will You Disabuse Me Still . . . Acknowledgments Notes
"Hedgie's poems treat our lives with the disrespect they deserve." - Jackson Holbert "Meet Hedgie Choi, in Salvage, lurking like someone with blue hair, using droll commentary and humor to confront poetry's great subjects-love, death, and mystery: 'I am afraid of mystery / but by Mystery I was made / to be afraid.' These poems thrill with deceptive simplicity, subversion, and candor, jolted by biting critiques of culture, in a tone as accessible as it is original. She writes, for example, with a wink and a nod, 'I'm too afraid of pain to eat Chinese food / under five dollars. I'm going to live forever.' I hope she does." - Jane Miller