Lee hee young is a writer of YAfiction. She debuted as a writer in 2013 by winning the 1st Kim SeungokLiterary Award for New Writers. The following year, she was awarded the May 18Literary Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, Summer Summer Vacation, waspublished in 2017. She then went on to win two major prizes in 2018—the 12thChangbi YA Literature Prize (for Paint), and the 1st Brit G RomanceThriller Prize (for Who Are You?). She has published Ordinary Sunset,Why Are You Following Me? (co-authored), and Second Ending(co-authored).
