A historian and novelist, SONG WOOHYE has published several novels and short story collections as well as biographies and collected essays. Best known for her work on Yun Dong-ju, she has also published papers on the history of North Gando and the Korean Independence Movement. She received a Samsung Literary Award in 1984.

FLORA M. KIM is a freelancing translator/interpreter based in New Jersey, where she was born. She grew up in Seoul, Korea. Formerly a lawyer and currently a librarian, she has taught Korean literature, cinema, translation, and interpreting at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

DAVID KROLIKOSKI is assistant professor of Korean at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.