Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian writer born December 1, 1943 in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist.
She received her early education at the Methodist Girls' School, Klang and Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur.
She read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. She received a PhD from National University of Malaysia in 2008 for her thesis "From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction".