Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She graduated from with a creative writing degree from Seoul Institute of Arts; and a graduate degree in Korean Literature from Hanyang University. Her writing debut was in 2000 with her short story "Shaking off the dew" that was the winning entry in the Seoul Shinmun's Spring Literary Contest.
Park Youngsuk has taught Korean Studies abroad for over the past ten years in universities in U.S. and Europe. She translated and published books related to Korean arts and history, and her own English poems were translated and published in Romania.
Gloria Cosgrove Smith graduated from the State University of New York majoring in English Literature and took Creative Writing in the Graduate School of Cornell University. Currently she lives in Florida and is working on her novel.