Slin Jung is a freelance translator and interpreter. She received an MA in Conference Interpreting at the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She won the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators in 2014, a Commendation Prize for the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award in 2015, a GKL Korean Literature Translation Award in 2018, and has received LTI Korea grants to translate two works by Chang Kangmyoung: Waning Crescent, or The Way You Remember the World and Astatine.