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Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province. As an undergraduate, she studied Korean literature at Kangwon University and Konkuk University. Later, she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Konkuk University. She first debuted as a literary critic when her criticism was published in Dong-A Ilbo in 1978, and then as a poet by publishing her poem in Literature and Intellect Quarterly in 1979. She is the author of the poetry collections From Yet Another Star, Father’s Scarecrow, The Hell of That Star, Our Dark Picture, My Upanishad, Seoul, A Poor Love Machine, Dear Calendar Factory Owner, A Glass of Red Mirror, Your First, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, Blossom, Pig, The Autobiography of Death, Phantom Pain Wings, and After Earth Dies, Who Will Moon Orbit? Her published prose works include Thus Spoke No, a book of poetic essays; To Do WomanAnimalAsia, an essay collection; and collections of critical essays, To Write as a Woman: Lover, Patient, Poet, and You and A Woman Does Poetry. She is a professor emerita in creative writing at the Seoul Institute of Art. Her honors include the 1997 Kim Suyeong Poetry Award, the 2000 Contemporary Poetry Award, the 2000 Sowol Poetry Award, the 2006 Midang Literature Award, the 2008 Daesan Literature Award, the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2021 Cikada Prize, and the 2022 Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, among others.

★ The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize(Canada)
★ The 2021 Cikada Prize(Sweden)
★ The 2022 International Writer selected by the Royal Society of Literature(U.K.)
★ The 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry(U.S.)
★ Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Arts since 2025(U.S.)