Seo Su-jin is born and raised in Seoul. She is a certified Korean language lecturer and has taught at several universities in Seoul. Her debut novel Korean Teachers won the 25th Hankyoreh Literature Prize in 2020. In 2021, she published the novella Gold Rush as well as the novel Yujin and Dave in Hyundae Munhak magazine. Su-jin now lives in Sydney, Australia, and her next novel Summer Hill High School will be published in 2022.

Choi Eunmi debuted in 2008 by winning the Literary Award for New Writers in the Hyundae Munhak journal with her story “Cry and Go.” She is the author of the short-story collections A Dream Too Beautiful, Magnolia Story, A Person Made of Snow; the novels The Ninth Wave, Face to Face, and the novella Yesterday Was Spring. She has won many awards including, the Young Writer Award, the Daesan Literary Award, the Hyundae Literary Award, the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Contemporary Buddhist Literature Prize, and the Heo Gyun Literary Award.

Seo Hajin (born 1960) is a South Korean writer.

Cheon Un-yeong (born 1971) is a South Korean writer.

Nam Sang-sun (1963~) is a South Korean novelist. She made her literary debut in 1992 when her short story “San neomeoeneun gijeoksoriga” (산 너머에는 기적소리가 Over the Mountain) won the Munwha Ilbo New Writer’s Contest. Published in 1993, her novel Huin baemeul chajaseo (흰 뱀을 찾아서 In Search of the White Snake) won the 17th Today’s Writer Award. Novel Nabineun eotteoke anneunga (나비는 어떻게 앉는가 How a Butterfly Sits) (1995) Short story collection Dorajikkot sinbal (도라지꽃 신발 Bulberry Flower Shoes) (2021)