Writer, editor, and mother living in Mongolia’s third-largest (but best) city.
Michelle Borok is a Korean and American writer and editor living in Darkhan, Mongolia, with her husband and daughter. She moved to Mongolia from Los Angeles in 2012. She has written about her life in Mongolia for Giant Robot, Roads & Kingdoms, and other arts and culture websites. She has had essays published in the anthologies How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit and What God Is Honored Here?
Back in 2010, just after my first trip to Mongolia, I started blogging on Tumblr. I had been writing for the Giant Robot Blog for a couple of years, but as an old school zine maker, I harbored a somewhat irrational distrust and disdain for blogs/bloggers/blogging. Looking back on the Tumblr posts, I can see how much I relied on the blog to sort through all the big feelings of sorting through so many new experiences, reinventing myself as a wife and mother, and reconnecting with writing. It's an 18-page time capsule now. I'm going to spruce it up with some text from stories I wrote for people who let those websites fade away, but ultimately, it'll be an archive. The blog for this website will hopefully be my new outlet for a return to regular writing.
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I'm honored to have been included in this powerful and important anthology. Click the cover for more info.
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