Dr. Lee Su Kim is an author, a previous newspaper columnist with The Star, a freelance writer, a trainer as well as a university lecturer. She is an Associate Professor of English at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is of Straits Chinese parentage and was born in Kuala Lumpur. She was educated in the Bukit Bintang Girls’ School and obtained her B.A. and M.Ed degrees from the University of Malaya. She lived for 4 year in Texas, the USA, where she obtained her Doctorate in Education.

She is the authorof eight books including two bestsellers, Malaysian Flavours (Second Edition: 2004) and Manglish: Malaysian English at its Wackiest (1998). Her latest book, A Nyonya In Texas: Insights of a Straits Chinese Woman in the Lone Star State (2007) is a hilarious and rib-tickling account of crosscultural encounters between East and West.