Moon Boyoung won the Joong-Ang New Writer’s Award in 2016 and the Kim Su-Young Literary Award in 2017. Her published works include the poetry collections Pillar of Books, Battleground, and Sand Bookstore Where Sand Rain Falls; short story collections Hill of Yawns and You, the Sad Knower of a Certain Bird’s Name;and the nonfiction titles The Long Run of the Semi Best Effort, Into the Trash Again in Angst, Diary Era, and If There is a Field on the Other Side of Life.