The Spiritkeeper's Apothecary

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Bae Myeong-eun is the author of several novels, including The Strange Village of Cheongho-ri and Gyehwa’s Summer. She is also a contributor to the horror anthologies T**he Night When The Ghost Came, We Bring Other Demons, and Yokai Tales, among others. After twenty-four years of experience working as a nursing assistant at a Korean medicine clinic, Bae said it was impossible not to have faith in the practice and began writing her first novel, The Spiritkeeper’s Apothecary, which is a #1 Korean bestseller and her first book to be translated into English.

Soje is a writer and the translator of Lee Hyemi’s Unexpected Vanilla, Lee Soho’s Catcalling, and Choi Jin-young’s Hunger and Everything Happened at Once. They have been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry and the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation and longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.