Hwang Sun-mi (born 1963) is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable Madangeul naon amtak (마당을 나온 암탉 The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly).LifeBorn in 1963 as the second of five children, Hwang Sun-mi was unable to attend middle school due to poverty but, thanks to a teacher who gave her a key to a classroom, she was able to go to the school and read books whenever she wanted. She enrolled in high school by taking a certificate examination and she graduated from the creative writing departments at Seoul Institute of the Arts and Gwangju University, and from graduate school at Chung-Ang University. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.Hwang is an adjunct professor at Seoul Institute of the Arts. Hwang`s career as a writer began in 1995 when she won the Children`s Literature Critics Award for Newcomers (아동문학평론 신인문학상) for the short story `Guseula,