Yoo Heekyung is an acclaimed South Korean poet, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of over ten collections of poetry and prose, including Today’s Morning Vocabulary (Moonji Books, 2011), Somewhere in the World: Stories of a Poetry Bookshop (Dal Publishers, 2021), Winter Night Rabbit Worries (Hyundae Munhak, 2023), Photography and Poetry (Achimdal Books, 2024), and Oggi and I (Nanda, 2024). Yoo studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and playwriting at the Korea National University of Arts, and debuted as a poet in 2008 when his poem won the spring literary contest sponsored by the Chosun Ilbo, a major South Korean daily newspaper. He is a playwright with the theater company dock and a member of the poetry collective jaknan. A recipient of Today’s Young Artist Award from the South Korean Ministry of Culture (2023), Hyundae Munhak Literary Award (2020), and the Gosan New Writer Award (2019), Yoo lives in Seoul where he runs the poetry bookshop and project space Wit N Cynical.