Kim Ryeo-ryeong was born in 1971 and studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She received the Munhak Dongne Children’s Literature Prize in 2007 for A Seahorse Lives in My Heart, Ma Hae-song Literary Award in 2007 for The Child Who Brought Memory, and Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction in 2007 for Wandeuk (published by Changbi). The Trunk is being adapted into a Netflix TV series, launching in autumn 2024.