Hyewon Yum is a South Korean author and illustrator of several acclaimed books for children, including Last Night, There Are No Scary Wolves, The Twins' Blanket, and Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!.
Hyewon Yum she studied illustration at the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York.
She published her first original picture book Last Night in 2009, which was also her SVA graduation project.
After graduating from the undergraduate and graduate programs at Seoul National University, followed by her studies at SVA, she published Last Night in 2009, which was translated and published in Korean, French, and Portuguese, and its follow-up, There Are No Scary Wolves, which was the 2010 winner of the Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award.
received an Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award upon publication in 2013,[8] Puddle won the APALA,[9] and Saturday Is Swimming Day was named as a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book.