아프지 않다 외롭지 않다

경북대학교 사범대학 국어교육과를 졸업하고 중등학교 교사가 되었다가 대구 매일신문사에서 기자로 일했다. 1980년 《시조문학》지 천료. 시조집으로 『빈 들의 집』 『서역 가는 길』 『저 혼자 꽃 필 때에』 『달집 태우기』 『명창』 『엎드려 별을 보다』 『꽃벼랑』 『아프지 않다 외롭지 않다』 『너와 보낸 봄날』 『세상의 모든 딸들ALL THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH』 『깨끗한 절정』 『먼 사랑』이 있고, 동화집으로 『하늘 발자국』이 있다. 한국시조작품상, 이영도시조문학상, 유심작품상, 오늘의시조문학상, 고산문학대상, 한국단시조작품상을 수상했다. 이호우이영도시조문학회 운영위원, 국제시조협회 이사, 《시조튜브》 대표. Kim 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 newspaper 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.