Born in Pohang in 1983, Lee Soyoun studied creative writing at Chung-Ang University. Her writing career began in 2014 when she won the Korea Economic Daily Spring Literary Contest with her poem “The Origin of Brain Prenatal Education.” She is the author of the poetry collection I Need a Girl Who Will Die Slowly. In 2020, she received the highest number of votes in the poetry category of ‘The Faces of Korean Literature’ survey. Lee is a member of the creative collective Kyeom.