Author Seon Ja-eun has always loved mysteries. She spent her college and graduate school years studying people, then explored storytelling through a writing program for children’s literature. Her novel, The Night the Panda Cried, won the inaugural Sallim Young Adult Literature Award. Her works include The Calendar of Time; The Memory of That Day; The Little Haenyeo and the Sea Spirit Mulhalmang; The Curious Collections of the Anything Agency; Detective of the Enchanted Forest; and The Ghost Girl Detective.​