[1] Kwon Yeo-sun was born in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province of South Korea in 1965.
At the time, novels that reflected on the period of the democratization movement in South Korea, were prevalent.
Eight years after the publication of Niche of Green, Kwon published a short story collection called Maiden’s Skirt.
This collection, a book that Kwon professes felt like publishing a love letter to herself, is about defeated individuals who, though troubled by their tragic fates, come to a place of resigned acceptance.
In Kwon's second short story collection The Days of Pink Ribbon, the characters are often people who have failed rather than succeeded.