Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea, in 1970. She graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Philosophy, and later received her PhD (writing a thesis comparing Nietzsche and Nagarjuna). Jin Eun-young made her literary debut in 2000, publishing poems in the spring issue of Literature and Society. She has since published a number of poetry collections, including 일곱 개의 단어로 된 사전 [A Dictionary of Seven Words], 우리는 매일매일 [We, Day By Day],훔쳐가는 노래 [A Stealing Song] and 시시하다 [Sisihada], and has received the Kim Daljin Literature Award for Young Poets, the Daesan Literature Award, the Modern Literature Award, and the Cheon Sang-byeong Poetry Award. She has written numerous academic books: Nietzsche, Eternal Return and the Philosophy of Difference; Critique of Pure Reason: Taking Reason to Court; and The Atopos of Literature, among others. In addition, the poetry anthology Red Snowflake was published in French by Bruno Ducey Publishing (2016), and the English translation of We, Day By Day was published by White Pine Press (2018).  Jin Eun-young is currently a professor of literary counselling at Korea Counselling Graduate University.