Genny Lim

Genny (Genevieve) Lim was born on 15 December 1946, in San Francisco, California.^[1] She is an American poet, playwright, and performer. She served as the Chair of Community Arts and Education Committee, and as Chair of the Advisory Board for the San Francisco Writers Corps.^[2] She has performed with Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, Francis Wong, and Jon Jang among others in San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Houston and Chicago.^[2]

Life

She graduated with her BA and MA from San Francisco State University, and later with a certificate in broadcast journalism from Columbia University in 1973. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

 

Genny Lim in San Francisco, 1975

She lives in San Francisco with her two daughters, Colette and Danielle.^[3][4] Her papers are held at University of California Santa Barbara.^[5]

Awards

• 1981 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• James Wong Howe Award for Paper Angels (Premiered July 2000, UC Zellerbach Playhouse).^{[citation needed]}
• 2022 Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN Oakland

Works

• Wings of Lai Ho. Illustrator Andrea Ja Chinese translator Gordon Lew. San Francisco, Calif: East/West Pub. Co. 1982.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• 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.
• Contributed to This Bridge Called My Back in 1981.
• Featured poet in festivals that took place in Venezuela, Sarajevo, Italy and Bosnia-Hercegovina (2007).^[2]

Poetry

• Winter Place. Kearney St Workshop Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-9609630-4-1.
• Child of War. University of Hawaii Press. January 2003. ISBN 978-0-9709597-3-7.
• Paper Gods and Rebels. Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. January 2013. ISBN 978-0-918408013.

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.
• Linda Wagner-Martin; Cathy N. Davidson, eds. (1999). Oxford Book of Women's Writing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513245-8.
• Genny Lim, ed. (2020). Window: glimpses of our storied past. Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. ISBN 978-0578734583.

References

1. Liu, Miles Xian (2002). Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31455-1.
2. Moraga, Cherrie (2015). This Bridge Called My Back. New York, United States: Sunny Press. p. 270.
3. . jaimewright.ws. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15.
4. "Genny Lim". Poets & Writers. 28 May 1981.
5. "Guide to the Genny Lim Papers CEMA 34". Online Archive of California.

External links

 

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