[2] She graduated in 2009 after studying under mentors including Kim Young-ha (Your Empire is Calling You, The Photoshop Murder, Black Flower, etc.).
Kim has lived internationally in the recent past including stints in the City of New York and in 2016 was given a U.S. visa as an O-1 Alien of Extraordinary Ability in the Arts, granting her a three-year residency.
[4] Her first story was titled "02" (Yong’i) and for this work she was given the Changbi New Writer's Prize, by the Ch'angjak kwa pip'yong publishing house.
In 2016 "It's One of Those the More-I’m-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It’s Really Blowing My Mind" became her first work published in English in the collection The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women.
[6] "It's One of Those the More-I'm-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It's Really Blowing My Mind" is one of the rare Korean works to explicitly confront psychosis and count a mental breakdown as the reason for a homicide.