Kim Jinyoung graduated from the School of Film, TV & Multimedia with a concentration in filmmaking in 2010. Kim directed the short film Heredity of Taste in 2008, and won the Grand Prize in the 2010 Seoul International Women’s Film Festival with her short film Believe in Me, directed in 2009. While making short films and focusing on screenwriting, Kim became interested in novels as the sources of inspirational stories and applied to the story creation program at the Korea Creative Content Agency to write her debut work, Lies Hidden in My Backyard, which received outstanding praises from the judges.

Born in Busan in 1981, she graduated from Hongik University with a degree in Visual Design and from the Korea National University of Arts with a master's in Film. She has directed several short and feature films, with "In the Land of Fantasy" being a notable work. Her first novel, "Today's Mom," was followed by "Under the Mirrorball" in 2021. In 2023, she won the Grand Prize at the 11th Kyobo Book Centre Story Award for her novel "mymy."

Jeong Sejin, who studied fine arts, is an active curator. Her journey as a scenario writer began when she won the excellence prize for Scenario at the fourth Korea Cultural Content Storytelling Contest.