Yoo Heekyung was born in Seoul in 1980 and made her literary debut in 2008, winning the annual spring literary contest by Chosun Ilbo. Yoo, a member of the literary circle "Jakran". Yoo Heekyung wrote the following books of poems: Vocabulary of This Morning, Your Space-How to Grow as a Tree, A God to Us, Briefly. Yoo is the author of The Twinkling Words of the Night, a collection of essays. Yoo co-authored the play, The Things You Have Lost. Yoo is the winner of Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award.