An Hee-Yeon was born in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province in 1986. She debuted as a poet in 2012 when she won the Changbi New Poet’s Award. Her poetry explores the pain of those who must endure life in the darkest world fraught with a progressive decline and extinction of existence. She’s the author of the poetry collections When Your Sadness Intervenes, Inside Things Called Night, and Summer Lessons on the Hill. In 2016, she received the 34th Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature. An currently teaches creative writing at Korea National University of Arts.