The poet Hwang Gyu-gwan was born in Jeonju in 1968. In 1993, he received the Chun Taeil Literary Award, which launched his career as a poet. His poetry collections include Cheolsandong Post Office, Water Goes Its Way, Defeat Is My Strength, Waiting for a Typhoon, Midday Is Approaching, and Let's Let This Bus Go. His prose collections include Living in a World That Has Abandoned Rivers, as well as Kim Su-yeong, the Realist, a portrait and reading of the late poet Kim Su-yeong and his works. In 2020, Hwang received the Baekseok Prize for Literature.