Kim IlyeonKim Ilyeon was born in 1955 in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. After graduating from the College of Education at Kyungpook National University, she worked as a middle school teacher and later as a reporter for Maeil Shinmun, a daily newspape based in Daegu. Having published poems from the age of 15, Kim became a sijo (a form of Korean traditional poetry) poet after being introduced in the journal, Sijo munhak (Sijo Literature), in 1980. Her books include sijo collections such as The House on the Empty Field, The Road to the Western Regions, When the Flowers Bloom on Their Own, Burning the Moon House, Master Singer, Watching the Stars While Lying on My Belly, Flower Precipice, A Spring Day Spent with You, and A Clean Climax, and her children's storybook, Footprints in the Sky. She has won a number of awards including the Yusim Literature Prize and the Gosan Literary Award. As part of an effort to promote sijo in and outside Korea, she founded and is running a YouTube channel called Sijo-Tube. Read More Read Less