Kim Yi-Deum has published five books of poetry – A Stain in the Shape of a Star, Cheer up, Femme Fatale, The Unspeakable Lover, Song of Berlin, Dahlem, and Hysteria – and the novel Blood Sisters. Her work has been adapted into a play (The Metamorphosis, 2014) and a film (After School, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry & the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin Changwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015) and the Kim Chunsoo Award (2015).
Ji yoon Lee is a poet and translator whose most recent publication is Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook, and Kim Minjeong, the collection of contemporary Korean poetry (Vagabond Press, 2017). She translated Korean feminist poet Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015), which was shortlisted for Lucien Stryk Prize. She is also the author of Foreigner’s Folly (Coconut Books, 2014), Funsize/Bitesize (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA(Radioactive Moat, 2012). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
