Yi Woo Ae is an author, poet, lyricist, playwright, and unofficial anthropologist who was born in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea, and is an U.S. citizen. She has published twelve books, including this one, on the topic of Korean adoptees, Goths, romance and sex, spirituality, and prison. She was raised in the white-populated area of Little Korea, the Koreatown of the metropolitan DC area, and lived in the Koreanpopulated area of Little Korea for more than 10 years. She volunteers at Adoptee Hub as a copywriter to help stand up a birth search portal, among other adult adoptee services.
