Yeong-shin Ma Author

YEONG-SHIN MA was born in Seoul in 1982. He made his debut in 2007 and began publishing webtoon comics in 2015. Though comics publishing has moved from print to digital in Korea, he still prefers to work with pen and paper. Recently, he started running the label Bookmark for Kakao Webtoon, creating and producing webtoons, as well as working as a story artist. He has published eleven works to date. Moms, his first book to be published in English, received the Harvey Award for Best International Book and is set to be adapted as a TV series. Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo s The Impossible Fairy Tale. Recent translations include Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon, Ha Seong-nan's Bluebeard s First Wife, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim s Grass, which won the 2020 Harvey Award for Best International Book and the 2020 Krause Essay Prize, and Yeong-shin Ma's Moms, which also won the 2021 Harvey Award for Best International Book.