Kim Cho-yeop has a master's degree in biochemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology. When she burst onto the Korean literary scene, her short story "Lost on Premises" received immediate recognition at the 2017 Korean Science Fiction Awards. She is also the recipient of the Minumsa Writer of the Year Award and the Munhak Dongne Young Writer Award. Her first short story collection If We Can't Travel at the Speed of Light has sold over two hundred thousand copies in Korea alone. She is also the author of two more short story collections, The World I Just Left Behind and The Bookstore of Planetary Languages. Kim Cho-yeop's first novel, Greenhouse At the End of the Earth, became an instant bestseller in South Korea.

*"With its profound concern for humanity and masterful command of craft, this is a stunner."-- "Publishers Weekly, starred review"

"With nuance, delicacy, and psychological depth, Kim Choyeop conjures worlds that are different from ours--at once strange and poignantly recognizable. A stunning collection that lingers in the mind and heart."--Ruth Ozeki, Booker Shortlisted author of The Book of Form and Emptiness

"I've been yearning for the whole world to read Kim Choyeop and fall in love with her as I did."--Bora Chung, National Book Award finalist and author of Midnight Timetable

"An astonishing and beautiful living thing--a line that I've stolen from this collection that captures it fully. Scientifically precise and endlessly curious, yet bursting with a love for humanity."--Silvia Park, author of Luminous

Publisher: S&s/Saga Press

Pub date: 2026-04-28

Length: 192 pages