has published numerous books of poems since her first award-winning poem in 1969. She is a recipient of many poetry awards, including the prestigious Sowol Poetry Prize (1996), the Contemporary Literature Award (1976), and Qiriu i Naimit Prize for the best work from Macedonia International Poetry Festival (2004). She participated in the Iowa International Writers' Program in 1995, published several books of her selected poems in several languages, including Windflower (Hawks Publishing, New York, 2004). She is currently a professor Korean Literature at Department of Creative Writing at Korea University.