Eun Hee-kyoung made her professional debut by winning the annual spring literary contest of the Dong-A Ilbo in 1995. The novels that she has published include A Gift From a Bird, Save the Last Dance for Me, Minor League, Let Me Comfort the Boy, A Life of Calm, and Past of Light. Her other works include several stories, such as Talking to a Stranger, Inheritance, Beauty Looks Down on Me, The One and Only Snowflake that Looked Like All the Others, and Chinese Roulette, as well as a prose collection Sundays of Thought. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Chinese. She has won the Yi San Literary Award, the Korean Literary Award for Fiction, the Hanguk Ilbo Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Hwang Soon-won Literary Award, and the Oh Young-soo Literary Award. She has also served as director for both the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and the National Museum of Korean Literature.