(English) Kang Mul-gyeol studied creative writing at Korea National University of Arts and has also taught writing. After graduation, Kang worked as a journalist for an economic daily, then wrote and edited picture books as a publication editor. Currently, the author makes education content for children and publishes various works including children’s stories, essays, and novels.

Kang published the science fiction work, Feast, when she was awarded the 2021 KOCCA Story Writer Contest for New Writer Funding Program. In the novel, the author poses a question on the universal view toward life and death and reminds us of the true values of a finite life through reproduced humans revived after physical death. The isolated space in the novel characterized by an outstanding writing style was praised as novel setting  that widens the boundary of science fiction in Korea.

(Japanese) 作家は韓国芸術総合学校で叙事創作を専攻し、人々に書くことを教えた。大学を出て経済新聞社で記者として働いた。以後、出版編集者として多数の絵本を編集して執筆した。現在は幼児童教育コンテンツを作り、童話やエッセイ、小説など多様な執筆を兼ねている。

2021 KOCCA新進ストーリー作家育成事業作家公募展に選定され、初のSF長編『饗宴』を出版した。