Shirley Lim is an award-winning Malaysian-born American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman. Her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, received the 1997 American Book Award. Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Criticism : Presence and Absence
• Criticism : Singapore Between Past and Future
• Criticism : Sparkling Glass

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