My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim