Sin Yong-Mok

Born in Geochang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, in 1974, Sin Yong-Mok received a new writers award in 2000 and has published six collections of poetry, a volume of prose essays, and a novel. He received several awards for his work prior to the collection When Someone Called Someone I Looked Back (2017), which received the 2017 Baek Seok Award for Poetry. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing Department of Chosun University, Gwangju, South Jeolla Province. His first book in English translation, a selection of his poems Concealed Words will be out with Black Ocean in November 2022.