Seo Hajin was born in 1961 in Youngcheon, North Kyungsang Province. She studied Korean literature at Kyunghee University in Seoul, Korea, and is currently a assistant professor of Korean Literature at the same school.Ally Hwang is a translator of Korean literature. She has published a short story translation of Seo Hajin, two volumes in the Korean Classic Stories series, and “Bunnyeo” and “Harbin” by Yi Hyo-seok in the E-Book 20th Century Korean Literature.Amy C. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University (TSUS). With Ally Hwang she has translated two collections of Seo Hajin’s short stories. She is currently completing a book, to be published with Northwestern University Press, called Virginia Woolf’s Politics of Myth.