"Originally published in Korean as Sagwa nun chal haeyo by Hyondae Munhak, Seoul, 2009"--Title page verso.
Lee Ki-ho debuted when his short story "Birney" won the monthly Modern Literature New Writer's Contest in 1999, and was awarded the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award in 2010. He is currently a professor in the department of creative writing at Gwangju University in South Korea.