Yoo Heekyung

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Yoo Heekyung is a Korean poet, essayist, and playwright. His poetry collections include Winter Night Rabbit Worries (Hyundae Munhak, 2023), translated by Stine An and published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2026, and Today’s Morning Vocabulary (Moonji Books, 2011). 

Yoo runs Wit N Cynical, a poetry bookshop and project space in Seoul, and is a member of the theater company dock and the poetry collective jaknan. A recipient of the Hyundae Munhak Literary Award and the Gosan New Writer’s Award, Yoo lives in Seoul.