CHIWAN CHOI

Chiwan Choi is a poet, writer, publisher and lifelong seer of ghosts. He is the author of three full length books of poetry – The Flood (Tia Chucha Press, 2010), and the Daughter Trilogy, three books that explore his lost daughter as ghost: Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012), The Yellow House (CCM, 2017), and the forthcoming My Name Is Wolf (Summer 2021) – and multiple poetry chapbooks, including Time Out of Space and lo/fidelity lovesongs. He wrote, presented, and destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015, as part of his ongoing examination on the meaning of a book, of conjuring and nurturing of ghosts. Chiwan has published his poetry, fiction and essays in numerous journals and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, ONTHEBUS, Poem-A-Day and many other publications. Chiwan has been the subject of features on KCET, LA Weekly, Cosmonaut Magazine. and OTHRPPL. He was even a librettist for the opera Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands, produced by Overtone Industries. He is also working on a new podcast called Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan. Chiwan currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh with his wife.