Yun Heunggil is a novelist and professor of creative writing at Hanseo University. His representative works include The Rainy Spell, Armband, and The Man Who Was Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes. He is the recipient of numerous awards (the Korean Literature Writers Award, the Korea Creative Literature Award, the Hyundae Literary Award, the 21st Century Literature Award, and the Daesan Literary Award), and his works have appeared in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, and other languages.