JANG RYUJIN was born in 1986. She studied sociology at Yonsei University, and then Korean literature at Dongguk University. Her literary career took off in 2018 when she received the Changbi Prize for New Figures in Literature. Her first short story collection, The Joys and Sorrows of Work, offers an incisive and good-humored portrait of young people weighed down with daily burdens as well as women surrounded by systematic contradictions in Korean society. She won the 11th Munhakdongne Young Writers’ Award for her short story “Yeonsu.”