Nancy Kim is the author of several nonfiction books and a novel, Chinhominey's Secret. She was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA and JD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an LLM from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a law professor and an expert on contracts, and she has lectured at universities around the world. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and two daughters.