[2] Kim Yi-deum was born in Jinju, South Korea and raised in Busan.

She made her literary debut when the quarterly journal Poesie published “The Bathtubs” (욕조 a에서 달리는 욕조 A를 지나) and six other poems in its Fall 2001 Issue.

In 2012, she spent a semester at the Free University of Berlin as a writer in residence, sponsored by Arts Council Korea.

Based on her experience there, she wrote her fourth poetry collection Bereulin, dalemui norae (베를린, 달렘의 노래 Song of Berlin, Dahlem), published by Lyric Poetry and Poetics in 2013.

[4] Kim Yi-deum’s poetry collections include: Byeol moyangui eoluk (별 모양의 얼룩 A Stain in the Shape of a Star); Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (명랑하라 팜 파탈); Malhal su eopneun aein (말할 수 없는 애인 Inexpressible Love); Bereulin, dalemui norae (베를린, 달렘의 노래 Song of Berlin, Dahlem); and Histeria (히스테리아 Hysteria).

She also has a novel, Bleodeu sisteojeu (블러드 시스터즈 Blood Sisters).

[10] Her narrators are often schizophrenic or have multiple personalities, disrupting the existing world order.

[11] Many of her poems feature single mothers, prostitutes, people with disabilities, divorced women, queer people, mental patients, beggars, the elderly poor, and other minority groups.

She observes the order governing their marginalized world and seeks new artistic possibilities through it.

She condemns unreasonable social conventions using language that might be described as hysterical, destructive, vengeful, and rebellious.

『한국현대 페미니즘시 연구』(국학자료원, 2015) { Study on Modern Korean Feminist Poetry.

“Wrecking of Myth and Changing of the Siren’s Voice.” Changbi, Spring 2008 Issue.

“From Persecuted Womb to Resisting Womb.” Writer’s World, Winter 2015 Issue.