Cho Yeeun has enchanted the literary world since her notable debut which won the Kyobo Book Award, and subsequently published a series of spirited, yet darkly captivating horror/thrillers. Her standout short story collection, Cocktails, Love, Zombies not only soared in sales, exceeding 100,000 copies since its 2020 release but also crossed borders, being published internationally in Japan, China and Taiwan. Her first novel to be translated into English was The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre (Honford Star, 2024). Sung Ryu is a literary translator working from and into Korean. Her English translations include Shoko's Smile by Choi Eunyoung (Penguin Books/John Murray), Tower by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star), and I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (Harper Voyager, co-translated with Sophie Bowman), and The Legends of MeoShín'Ké: An Illustrated Guide to Korean Monsters and Mythology by HwaHwa Studio (Andrews McMeel).