Hye-young Pyun was born in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. Her published works include the short story collections
Aoi Garden,
To The Kennels,
Evening Courtship, and
Night Passes; and the novels
City of Ash and Red,
They Went to the Western Forest,
The Law of Lines,
The Hole, and
Let The Dead. She has received the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature Prize, the Today's Young Writer Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundai Munhak) Award. Her novel
TheHole was the 2017 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and
City of Ash and Red was an NPR Great Read. In 2019, she was awarded the Kim Yujeong Literary Award for her short story "Hotel Window." Her short stories have been published in
The New Yorker,
Harper's Magazine, and
Words Without Borders. She currently teaches creative writing at Myongji University and lives in Seoul, Korea.
Sora Kim-Russell's translations include, besides
The Hole,
City of Ash and Red, and
The Law of Lines by Hye-young Pyun, Un-su Kim's
The Plotters; Hwang Sok-yong's
At Dusk, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; and Suah Bae's
Nowhere to be Found. Her full list of publications can be found at
sorakimrussell.com. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
