Choi Jin-Young has been publishing fiction since 2006. She debuted as a writer through Silcheon Munhak, and won the 15th Hankyoreh Literary Award in 2010 for her novel The Name of the Girl Who Passed You By. Choi has received numerous other literary awards including the Manhae Literary Award, the Baek Sin-ae Literary Award, and the Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature. She is the author of the novels The Name of the Girl Who Passed You By, Unfinished Song, Why Didn’t I Die?, Proof of Gu, To the Warm Horizon, Dear Sister, and Dream of Becoming Myself; and the short story collections The Top, and Winter Vacation.