Shirlyn Leong is the owner and decorator behind Cookies Art by Shirlyn. She began teaching herself in 2013. Some of her specialities include hand-painting, character cookies, and pressure piping. She was featured on lilaloa.com and she has taught classes at CookeCon 2018. Shirlyn has been teaching hands-on and virtual decorating classes since 2015. Her inspirations have come from different type of artistic mediums that allow her to interpret on a cookie. Shirlyn is originally from Malaysia but currently resides in North Carolina. Aside from cookie decorating, Shirlyn enjoys cooking and travel as well as spending time with her family.