Jang I-Ji graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature of Sungkyunkwan University and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from the graduate school at the same university. He made his entrance into Korean literature in 2000 by publishing his work with Hyundae Munhak, a literature magazine, as a new writer. He has published several collections of poems: Anguk-dong Crying Store (2007), Lotus Lips (2011), Lapland Post Office (2013), Lemon Yellow (2018), and A Boy Is Looking at the White Moon from a Classroom Under the Sea (2020). He also published a collection ofed poems, Anguk-dong Crying Store 1.5 (2020), and several review books, including The Space of Hospitality (2013), Sociology of Content (2015), and The End of the World, Literature (2017). He has won the Kim Goo-yong Poetry Award and the Oh Jang-hwan Literary Award. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Korean Literature and Language at Jeju National University.