About: Geum Hee

Geum Hee (금희; born 1979), born Jin Jinji (Chinese: 金錦姬, Korean: Kim Geum Hee), is an ethnic Korean writer, who lives in China and writes in Korean. She realistically depicts the issue of identity for ethnic Koreans living in China and the diaspora experience, and she also continues to deepen her creative world by expanding the issue of migration to a transnational level. After making her literary debut in 2007 with the short story “Gaebul” (개불 Spoon Worm), she broke into the South Korean literary scene through the short story “Ok-hwa” (옥화 Ok-hwa) about North Korean defectors in 2014. She received the Baek Shin-ae Literature Prize and the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature with her short story collection Sesange eomnun naui jip (세상에 없는 나의 집 My Home Nowhere in The World).