
Kim Choyeop
김초엽
Kim Choyeop (born 1993) is a South Korean writer. Kim launched her literary career in 2017 when two of her stories, "Irretrievable" and "If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light" won the grand and runner-up prizes respectively at the 2017 Korean SF Awards. She then went on to win the Today’s Writer Award in 2019. Her debut short story collection, "If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light", was a record-breaking bestseller in South Korea and has been released in Japanese and Chinese. One of the stories from the book, "Symbiosis Theory", has also been published in Clarkesworld.