Chiwan Choi

Chiwan Choi is a writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective since 1989. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including ONTHEBUS, Esquire, Chiron Review, and CIRCA. Chiwan’s first major collection of poetry, The Flood, was published by Tía Chucha Press in April, 2010.

His students and clients have had various works published in the past couple of years, including the bestseller, Upper Cut, by Carrie White (Atria Books).

After a two-year stint in New York, where he received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School at NYU, Chiwan returned to Los Angeles where he and his wife, Judeth Oden, launched a new publishing company to feature Los Angeles writers, Writ Large Press, in March 2008.

Chiwan's new poetry collection, Abductions, is due out at the end of February 2012 and he is also finishing up Exit to Hope Street, a collection of short stories.