Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) was born in Malacca, Malaysia. She is an 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Geok-lin_Lim