Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist, illustrator and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She was a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, Eater, and elsewhere, and in books including “Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing” (Simon & Schuster, 2022), “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018).
Adam Oelsner is a freelance writer, illustrator and musician based in Tokyo. His writing and illustrations have appeared in such publications as Eater, Goldthread, Best of Korea, Catapult, The South China Morning Post, and Tom Tom Magazine.