Jiyoung Kang is an established Korean writer based in Paju, near Seoul. Most of her fiction features female assassins. She is the author of the story collections Goodbye Paradise, Time for Dogs to Eat, and The Killer’s Shopping List, and wrote many novels including Quarantine Station of New Culture, Elza’s Ha-yin, Circus in the Dark Forest, Frankenstein Family, Yawning is Delicious, Pheromone Boutique, and The Killer’s Shopping Mall. The 2024 Disney+ series The Shop for Killers is based on her novel The Killer’s Shopping Mall. Her latest novel Mrs Shim Is A Killer will be published by Doubleday in the UK and Harper in the US in Spring 2026. Translation rights have been sold to 17 territories. It will be the first time her work will be published outside of Asia.
