Born in 1987 in Seoul, Baek Eunsun debuted in 2012 in the literary journal Literature and Society. She is the author of many works, including the poetry collections A Possible World, A Film Made With Scenes No one Can Remember, The Feeling of Getting Help, The Person that Doesn’t Open Boxes, and the book of essays I Hate Me, Like Me and Find Myself Weird. In 2017 she received the Kim Jun-seong Literature Award and the Moonji Literature Award in 2021. Of writing she says, “When I write poetry, I find it difficult. I keep having to carry around questions that can’t be answered. I try to find the truth of a poem, but it always slips away from me. And every time it slips away, I think that’s what poetry is. These days I ask this question a lot, “What’s real? How useless and fuzzy is that boundary?” I walk and fall and trip, but if I keep on with bruised knees, there is a landscape I know I will arrive at.”
