Yoo Heekyung is a South Korean poet, playwright, and essayist.
He is the author of ten collections of poetry and prose, including Today’s Morning Vocabulary (Moonji Books, 2011), Somewhere in the World: Stories of a Poetry Bookshop (Dal Publishers, 2021), Winter Night Rabbit Worries (Hyundae Munhak, 2023), Poetry and Photography (Achimdal Books, 2024), and Oggi and I (Nanda, 2024). Yoo studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and playwriting at the Korea National University of Arts, and debuted as a poet in 2008 when his poem won the spring literary contest sponsored by the Chosun Ilbo. He is a playwright with the theater company dock and a member of the poetry collective jaknan. A recipient of the Hyundae Munhak Literary Award (2020) and the Gosan New Writer Award (2019), Yoo lives in Seoul, where he runs the poetry bookshop and project space wit n cynical.
