Quote of the day
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Born: December 27, 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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.
Known for:
- Among the white moon faces (1996)
- Joss and Gold (2002)
- One World of Literature (1993)
- Monsoon History (1994)
- What the fortune teller didn't say (1998)