Jeong Yi-hyun was born in Seoul in 1972. She studied political science and diplomacy at Sungshin Women's University and creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She first published her writing in Literature & Society in 2002 and has published collections of short stories, such as Romantic Love and Society, Today's Lie, and An Age of Nice Violence. She also wrote the novels My Sweet City; You Do Not Know; The Basics of Love: Lovers; and Farewell, My Everything; as well as the novella A Good Person, So To Speak. She has received the Lee Hyo-seok Literature Award, the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award, and Todays' Young Artist Award.