Dr Kirsty King is a lecturer in communication and language at UCL. She is a member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and a committee member of the Anthropology and Language Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She has published many papers on linguistics and language, edited journals, and has lectured in linguistics for over 20 years at the University of London.

Cornerstone Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, will publish her The Language of Lies: How to Uncover the Liar in your Life in March 2026.