Genny Lim

Genny Lim (Genevieve) (born 1946 San Francisco, California) is an American poet, playwright, and performer.

She graduated from San Francisco State University, and from Columbia University in 1973. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

She lives in San Francisco with her two daughters, Colette and Danielle.

Her papers are held at University of California Santa Barbara.

• 1981 American Book Award
• Bay Guardian Goldie, Creative Work Fund and Rockefeller for "Songline: The Spiritual Tributary of Paul Robeson Jr. and Mei Lanfang," collaboration with Jon Jang and James Newton.
• James Wong Howe Award for Paper Angels (Premiered July 2000, UC Zellerbach Playhouse).

• Wings of Lai Ho. Illustrator Andrea Ja Chinese translator Gordon Lew. San Francisco, Calif: East/West Pub. Co. 1982. 
• Him Mark Lai; Genny Lim; Judy Yung, eds. (June 1999). Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-97109-4. 

Poetry

• Winter Place. Kearney St Workshop Press. ISBN 978-0-9609630-4-1. 
• Child of War. University of Hawaii Press. January 2003. ISBN 978-0-9709597-3-7. 

Plays

• Paper Angels and Bitter Cane/Two Plays. Kalamaku Press. December 1991. ISBN 978-0-9623102-1-8. 

Anthologies

• Roberta Uno, ed. (1993). "Paper Angels". Unbroken Thread: Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-856-7. 
• Velina Hasu Houston, Wakako Yamauchi, Genny Lim, eds. (1993). The Politics of Experience: Four Plays by Asian American Women. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-001-9.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson, eds. (1999). Oxford Book of Women's Writing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513245-8.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)