Author Kang Heejin (M) used to be a playwright writing dramas for KBS. With the novel, Ghost, he won the Grand Prize at the 7th Segye Literary Award hosted by The Segye Times in 2011. He continues to write stories about the lives of aliens in the Korean society. He has a particular interest in North Korean defectors, so he wrote two novels about them, Ghost and Poppy. ​He also wrote Graves of the Owl, a novel about crimes against humanity that took place at an isolated island, Carnival, a story about a Philippine woman who married a Korean farmer and was later brutally murdered, and the history novel, Yi Sin, which is a reinterpretation of the Manchu war of 1636 with a focus on characters from Korean history. He is currently working on a story about homosexuals, to be titled Dream & Dream.