Park YeonJoon was born in 1980 in Seoul, Korea. She debuted in 2004 when her work won the JoongAng New Writer’s Award. Her publications include the poetry collections The Scream of Eyelashes, Father Called Me Sister-in-Law, and Venus Pudica; and the essay collections Disturbance, Night Is Long and Painful, Strange Currents of Life, On a Certain Day of a Certain Month, and We Told Each Other to Be Careful As We Walked (co-authored).