Ha Jaeyoun was born in 1975 in South Korea, and she received her bachelor's and doctorate degrees in Korean literature from Koryo University. In addition to Radio Days, originally published in 2006, she has published two other poetry collections in Korean as well as many scholarly works on modern Korean poetry. She has previously been translated into English by Jake Levine in the collection, Poems of Hwang Yuwon, Ha Jaeyoun, & Seo Dae-kyung.