Sun Mi Hwang (born 1963) is a South Korean author, novelist, and teacher best known for her acclaimed novel The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which was also adapted into the successful South Korean animated film Yaphit, A Hen in the Wild.
Hwang was born in 1963, the second of five children. Due to her family’s poverty, she was unable to attend middle school. However, thanks to a teacher who gave her a classroom key, she was able to attend school and read books whenever she wanted. She entered high school by passing the matriculation exam and graduated from the creative writing departments at Seoul Institute of the Arts and Gwangju University, and from the graduate school at Chung-Ang University. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.