Kang Hwagil is one of South Korea's new group of 'young feminists'. Her writing has received numerous accolades, most recently the 2020 Munhakdongne Young Writers' Award for short story Eumbok. She has published two short story collections, A Decent Person (2016) and White Horse (2020), as well as two novels, Another Person (2017), which won the Hankyoreh Literary Award the same year, and The Haunting of Daebul Hotel (2021).

Clare Richards is an editor and translator from Korean, with a key interest in feminist literary fiction. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Centre for Writing, Literature Translation Institute of Korea and The Korea Times, amongst others. Her translation of Kang Hwagil's prize-winning short story The Lake was published by The Massachusetts Review in 2022. Another Person is Clare's debut novel translation.