Cho Yunno was born in 1969 in Chungnam. He studied Created Writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts and completed a Ph.D. in Korean Literature at Dongguk University. He made his debut winning the Korea Hankook Ilbo Writer’s Contest in 1994. He has published such collections of poetry as Season to Death, The Birth of Evening, Astronomy, Agricultural Poems, Scent of Darkness, and a collection of essays, Happy Hard of Hearing. He is the recipient of the 10th Hyundae Poetry Award (2009) and the 16th Hyundae Poetics Award (2011).