Cho Haejin is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature, the Yi Sang Literature Award, and the Hyeongpyeong Literary Prize. Her novels are celebrated for bearing witness to the lives of those on the margins of Korean society: people with disabilities, foreigners, North Korean defectors, and overseas adoptees. Cho's novel I Met Loh Kiwan was adapted into a feature film and released on Netflix in 2024. She won Korea's prestigious Daesan Literary Award for Simple Heart. \nJamie Chang is an award-winning literary translator. Her translation of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. She is the recipient of the Daesan Foundation Translation Grant and a three-time recipient of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea Grant. She lives in Ontario, Canada.\n