Born in 1976, Hwang Jungeun is one of the bright young things of Korean literature, having published two collections of short stories and three novels to date. One Hundred Shadows (2010), her first novel, was both a critical and commercial success; its mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, and offbeat romance garnered the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Booksellers' Award.

Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for her translations of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass and Yeong-shin Ma's Moms. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan's Bluebeard's First Wife (selected as Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon. She is currently the Korean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.