Gu Byeong-mo is an award-winning author who was born in Seoul, South Korea. Her novel The Old Woman with the Knife was a New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Best Book of the Year.

Chi-Young Kim is an award-winning literary translator and editor who has translated works by Cheon Myeong-kwan, You-Jeong Jeong, Kyung Ran Jo, Ae-ran Kim, Young-ha Kim and Kyung-Sook Shin, among others.