Quote of the day
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
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)