Hwang Bo-reum is the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop and the essay collections Every Day I Read, Trying Kickboxing for the First Time, The Perfect Distance, and Simple Living. She lives in Seoul.
Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. She was selected for two emerging literary translator mentorships in 2022, where she was mentored by Anton Hur and Julia Sanches. Her prose translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Common, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture and more.