Kang Ji-young is from Paju, Gyeonggi Province, and writes fiction and webtoons. She is the author of the short story collections Goodbye Paradise and Time for the Dogs to Eat, the novels The New Culture Quarantine Office, Mrs. Shim Is a Killer, Elza’s Ha-yin, The Frankenstein Family, The Circus in the Dark Forest, Yawns Are Delicious, Pheromone Boutique, The Killer’s Shopping Mall, How to Not Die and Become an Adult, Good Driver, More Human Than Humans, An Almost Splendid Moment, and more. She has also serialized webtoons on Naver and KakaoPage, including Stiletto, Sawol the Witch, The Killer’s Shopping List, and others. Her work has been published in translation in Thailand and is forthcoming in English translations.