Embracing Your Voice: Wall Down Ramallah by Minyong Cho
Yellow Arrow Publishing announces the release of our third chapbook of 2026, Wall Down Ramallah by Minyong Cho. Since its establishment in 2016, Yellow Arrow has devoted its efforts to advocate for all women writers through inclusion in the biannual Yellow Arrow Journal as well as single-author publications and Yellow Arrow Vignette, and by providing strong author support, writing workshops, and volunteering opportunities. We at Yellow Arrow are excited to continue our mission by supporting Cho in all her writing and publishing endeavors.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Cho immigrated to California when she was 16. In 2007, then 32 years old, she moved to the West Bank to finish her PhD dissertation in Islamic art history. There, one question about her past gnawed at her: why did she experience abuse as a child but not her sister? In Wall Down Ramallah, Cho alternates memories of Korea with her life in Palestine, eliciting feelings of being completely and permanently outside any “home.” In liminal spaces like the Qalandia military checkpoint and the haunted hallways of a Jerusalem dormitory, and through the thin walls of the houses she moved through, she pieced together what her parents might have been hiding behind closed doors. The result of her profound, heartbreaking obsession with her personal history is Wall Down Ramallah.
The cover image is Yusuf fleeing the Advances of Zulaikha (1488) by Kamal Al-Din Behzad, currently in the Egyptian National Library and Archives and in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Cover design is by Alexa Laharty. According to Cho, the painting “has a claustrophobic interior space that matches the tone of Wall Down Ramallah, so I asked [Alexa] to use it as an inspiration for the book cover. It turns out this image is in the public domain, so Alexa added the title and my name to one of the depicted rooms to create the best cover for my book.”
Paperback and PDF versions of Wall Down Ramallah are now available from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. If interested in purchasing more than one paperback copy for friends and family, check out our discounted wholesale prices here. You can also search for Wall Down Ramallah wherever you purchase your books, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. To learn more about Cho and Wall Down Ramallah, check out our recent interview with her.
You can find Cho on Instagram @walldownramallah and connect with Yellow Arrow on Facebook and Instagram, to share some love for this chapbook. You can also share a review with any of the major distributors or by emailing editor@yellowarrowpublishing.com. We’d love to hear from you.
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