Monika Hope Lee is a professor of English at Brescia University College in London, Ontario, where she teaches, among other things, nineteenth-century British literature and creative writing. She is the author of Rousseau's Impact on Shelley: Figuring the Written Self (1999) and a poetry chapbook, slender threads (2004), as well as several essays and many poems in literary journals and anthologies.

Monika completed a B.A. in French and English at the University of Toronto, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of Western Ontario. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, and graduated from the Humber College postgraduate course in creative writing with distinction in 2007.

She has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and now lives just outside the village of Lobo with her husband Brian Diemert and their two daughters, Anna and Natasha.