Her work maintains aesthetic tensions while responding to political and social issues. Armed with allegory, satire and irony, her poems demonstrate that political poetry can be beautiful, too. She studied philosophy at Ewha Womans University, and earned a Ph.D. from the graduate school. Currently she is HK research professor at the same university. Debuted in 2010, she earned a Kim Dal-jin Award in 2009 and a Modern Literature Award in 2010. She has published three collections of poems.