Book One Lecture

Inaugurated in 2005, the Book One program asks the members of the incoming class to read the first book of the General Education program and their college careers over the summer. Each year, a book is selected based on excellence and suitability for promoting interdisciplinary conversations about the intersection of cultures. The author speaks during the Writing and Thinking Workshop week to enrich the students’ appreciation of the book and to give incoming students, as well as the entire Simon’s Rock community, the chance to ask questions of the author. The 2016 Book One is Hardly War by Don Mee Choi. The event is open to the campus community and the local community. 

Author biography:

Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War (Wave Books, April 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and translator of contemporary Korean women poets. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award and shortlisted for ALTA's Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Her most recent works include a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond Press, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed,ㅋ=q, Race=Nation (Wave Books, 2014), based on three talks given at the Race & Creative Writing Conference 2014 at the University of Montana, Missoula, and at the 2014 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Seattle. She was born in Seoul and came to the U.S. via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle.

Free and open to the public