Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b. 1944)
BIOGRAPHY
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Fulbright and Wien International Scholar; Ph.D. Brandeis University) is an Asian American/ Malaysian-Singapore writer of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and a woman. She's published seven poetry collections; three books of short stories; two novels (Joss and Gold and Sister Swing); a children's novel, Princess Shawl, translated into Chinese; and The Shirley Lim Collection. Her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, received the American Book Award. Author of two critical studies, she edited/co-edited Reading the Literatures of Asian America; Approaches to Kingston's The Woman Warrior; Transnational Asia Pacific; Power, Race and Gender in Academe; Transnational Asian American Literature; The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (1990 American Book Award winner); Writing Singapore; and other volumes; edited/co-edited Journal of Transnational American Studies and other journals. She served as Women's Studies Chair (UCSB) and Chair Professor of English (HKU) and is Research Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Awarded the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Lifetime Achievement Award and UCSB Faculty Research Lecture Award, she has taught at CUNY, SUNY, MIT, National Institute of Education (NTU), National Sun Yat-Sen University, National University of Singapore, and City University of Hong Kong.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
1980 – Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poem. Malaysia: Heinemann Writing in Asia Series.
1985 – No Man's Grove and Other Poems. Singapore: Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.
1989 – Modern Secrets: New and Selected Poems. Denmark & UK: Dangaroo Press.
1994 – Monsoon History: Selected Poems. UK: Skoob Pacifica.
1998 – What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say. US: West End Press.
2002 – A Gathering of Poems from Pok Fu Lam. With M.L. Liebler. USA: XOXOX Press.
2007 – Listening to the Singer: New and Selected Malaysian Poems. Malaysia: Maya Press.
2010 – Walking Backwards: New Poems. US: West End Press.
2013 – Mall Ballads: Hong Kong Festival Walk Poems. Hong Kong: Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
2015 – The Irreversible Sun. USA: West End Press.
2015 – Do You Live In?. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2015 – Ars Poetica for the Day. Singapore: Ethos Books.
Fiction
2006 – Sister Swing: a novel. 1st Ed. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish. 2nd Ed. Singapore and UK: Marshall Cavendish, 2011.
1982 – Another Country and Other Stories. Singapore: Times Books International.
1995 – Life’s Mysteries: The Best of Shirley Lim. Singapore: Times Books International.
1997 – Two Dreams: Short Stories. US: Feminist Press.
2001 – Joss and Gold: a novel. 1st Ed. USA: Feminist Press; Singapore: Times Books International. 2nd Ed. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010.
2008 – Princess Shawl. Malaysia: Maya Press. Chinese translation. Taiwan: Bookman, 2009.
Non-Fiction
1993 – Nationalism and Literature: Literature in English from the Philippines and Singapore. Philippines: New Day Publishers.
1994 – Writing Southeast/Asia in English: Against the Grain. UK: Skoob Pacifica.
1996 – Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands. 1st Ed. US: Feminist Press, 1996; as Among the White Moon Faces: Memoirs of a Nonya Feminist, Singapore: Times Books International, 1996. Chinese translation. Trans., Chang, Joan. Rye-Field: Taiwan, 2001. 2nd Ed. Time-Marshall Cavendish, 2005. 3rd Ed. Mar
Hybrid Work
2011 – The Shirley Lim Collection: Passports and Other Lives. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
Editorial
1989 – The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Mayumi Tsutakawa. USA: CALYX Books.
1991 – Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior. USA: Modern Language Press.
1992 – Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Amy Ling. USA: Temple University Press.
1993 – One World of Literature. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Norman Spencer. USA: Houghton Mifflin.
1999 – Asian American Literature: An Anthology. USA: NTC/Contemporary Press.
1999 – Transnational Asia Pacific Gender, Representations and the Public Sphere. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, Larry E. Smith and Wimal Dissanayake. USA: University of Illinois Press.
2000 – Tilting the Continent: An Anthology of Southeast Asian American Writing. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Cheng Lok Chua. USA: New Rivers Press.
2000 – Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower?. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Maria Herrera-Sobek. USA: Modern Language Association Press.
2001 – Moving Poetry: Hong Kong Children’s Poems. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin et al. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2006 – Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, John Blair Gamber, Stephen Hong Sohn, and Gina Valentino. USA: Temple University Press.
2009 – Writing Singapore: A Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature. Eds. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, Angelia Poon and Philip Holden. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
