Lee Kiho made his literary debut when his short story “Birney” won the Hyundae Munhak New Writer's Contest in 1999. He is the author of the collections of short stories, Choi Sunduk: Filled with the Holy Spirit, I Knew If I Stayed around Long Enough, Something like This Would Happpen, Who’s Doctor Kim?, Kang Min-ho, the Church Guy Friendly to Everyone, the novels At Least We Can Apologize, A World History of Second Sons, the novellas Circumstances of the Fire at Mogyang, and the short novels Unbothered Most of the Time, What is Learned in the Cradle is Carried to Summer, and Evidently a Love Story. He currently serves as a professor of creative writing at Gwangju University.