Kim Choyeop (b. 1993) holds a BA in chemistry and an MA in biochemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology. She launched her literary career in 2017 when two of her stories, “Irretrievable” (excerpted in this issue) 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 (Hubble, 2019), was a record-breaking bestseller in South Korea, and a Japanese translation is set to be released by Hayakawa Publishing. One of the stories from the book, “Symbiosis Theory,” was also published in Clarkesworld magazine.

김초엽(1993~)은 한국의 소설가다. 2017년 제2회 한국과학문학상 중단편 대상과 가작을 수상했으며, 이후 본격적인 문단 활동을 시작했다. 주로 세계의 종말, 디스토피아와 같은 SF장르의 작품을 발표하며 폭넓은 독자층을 확보했다.