Jeong Myeong-sub has worked as an office worker and a barista and currently works as a full-time writer and lecturer. His works embrace a variety of genres: history, detective stories, apocalypse stories, and zombie stories. His works include the historical detective novel Red Identity Tag, Birth of Great Detective, Great Detective in Gaebong-dong, Children of the Collapsed Apartment, A Keepsake Arranger, Hanseong Freemason, A Little Manse Boy, Korea’s Provisional Government in Shanghai, We Should Get Out Alive, A Night When a Moon Is Broken, and Miss Sontag. He received the grand prize at the 1st Jikji Literary Awards in 2013 and the New Creator Award at the 21st Busan International Film Festival in 2016. He is a member of the Korea Mystery Writers’ Community and the Borderless Writer Group.