Genny Lim

Genny Lim is a recipient of the PEN Oakland Reginald Lockett and Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Awards and a 2024 grant recipient of The Creative Work Fund. She was San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate (2016-2018). Her award-winning play Paper Angels has been produced throughout the U.S., in Canada and China and was the first Asian American play performed on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985. She is author of five poetry collections, Winter Place, Child of War, Paper Gods and Rebels, KRA!, La Morte Del Tempo, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, winner of the American Book Award. Lim is a board member of Before Columbus Foundation which presents the annual American Book Awards. She has collaborated with numerous jazz musicians, including Max Roach, Jon Jang, Francis Wong, Marcus Shelby, Hafez Modirzadeh and Del Sol String Quartet.