Kang Sungeun was born in 1973 in Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, Korea. She made her literary debut in 2005 by winning the Mukhakdong New Writer’s Award. Based on her quintessentially surrealistic imagination, Kang creates temporal and spatial dimensions of fantastical nature in her poetry. She is the author of the poetry collections I Fell Asleep without Taking Shoes Off, Just a Little Bit Weird, and Lo-Fi. She won the 2018 Daesan Literary Award.