Genny Lim
{{Short description|American poet, playwright and performer (born 1946)}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Genny Lim
|image=Poet Genny Lim, San Francisco, 1975.jpg
|caption=Lim in 1975
|birth_name=Genevieve Lim
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|12|15}}
|birth_place=San Francisco, California, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Poet
- playwright
- performer
}}
|education=San Francisco State University (BA, MA)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
|awards=American Book Award (1982)
|children=2
}}
File:Genny Lim, 1975, San Francisco.jpg
Genevieve (Genny) Lim (born December 15, 1946, in San Francisco, California){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQI3FR5Elg0C&q=Genny+Lim+%22born%22&pg=PA189|title=Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook|last=Liu|first=Miles Xian|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31455-1|language=en}} is an American poet, playwright, and performer. She is the ninth poet laureate of San Francisco, California, and the first Chinese American in the role.{{Cite web |date=September 6, 2024 |title=Mayor London Breed Names Genny Lim as San Francisco's Poet Laureate |url=https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-names-genny-lim-san-franciscos-poet-laureate |access-date=December 7, 2024 |website=sfgov.org}} She was the Chair of Community Arts and Education Committee, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the San Francisco Writers Corps.{{Cite book|title=This Bridge Called My Back|last=Moraga|first=Cherrie|publisher=Sunny Press|year=2015|location=New York, United States|pages=270}} 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.
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.
She lives in San Francisco with her two daughters, Colette and Danielle.{{Cite web |title=Genny Lim - Bio. |url=http://www.jaimewright.ws/limbio.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121328/http://www.jaimewright.ws/limbio.html |archive-date=2018-12-15 |website=jaimewright.ws}}{{Cite web |date=28 May 1981 |title=Genny Lim |url=http://www.pw.org/content/genny_lim_1 |website=Poets & Writers}}
Her papers are held at University of California Santa Barbara.{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Genny Lim Papers CEMA 34 |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8zg6ss4/ |website=Online Archive of California}}
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|date=June 2020}}
- James Wong Howe Award for Paper Angels (Premiered July 2000, UC Zellerbach Playhouse).{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- 2022 Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN Oakland
Works
- {{cite book |author=Genny Lim |author-mask=0| title=Wings of Lai Ho| year=1982| publisher=East/West Pub. Co.| place=San Francisco, Calif| others=Illustrator Andrea Ja Chinese |translator=Gordon Lew }}
- {{cite book| title=Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island| editor1=Him Mark Lai| editor2=Genny Lim| editor3=Judy Yung| publisher=University of Washington Press| date=June 1999| isbn=978-0-295-97109-4| url=https://archive.org/details/islandpoetryhist00laihrich}}
- Contributed to This Bridge Called My Back in 1981.
- Featured poet in festivals that took place in Venezuela, Sarajevo, Italy and Bosnia-Hercegovina (2007).
=Poetry=
- {{cite book | title=Winter Place | year=1989 | publisher=Kearney St Workshop Press | isbn=978-0-9609630-4-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/winterplacepoems00limg }}
- {{cite book| title=Child of War| publisher=University of Hawaii Press | date=January 2003| isbn=978-0-9709597-3-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=Paper Gods and Rebels| publisher=Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. | date=January 2013|isbn=978-0-918408013}}
=Plays=
- {{cite book| title=Paper Angels and Bitter Cane/Two Plays| publisher=Kalamaku Press| date=December 1991| isbn=978-0-9623102-1-8| url=https://archive.org/details/paperangelsbitte00limgrich}}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Unbroken Thread: Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women| url=https://archive.org/details/unbrokenthreadan00unor_0| url-access=registration| chapter=Paper Angels| editor=Roberta Uno| publisher=University of Massachusetts Press| year=1993| isbn=978-0-87023-856-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Politics of Experience: Four Plays by Asian American Women| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeOEAth7SVgC&q=Genny+Lim |editor=Velina Hasu Houston |editor2=Wakako Yamauchi |editor3=Genny Lim| publisher=Temple University Press| year=1993| isbn=978-1-56639-001-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=Oxford Book of Women's Writing |editor=Linda Wagner-Martin |editor2=Cathy N. Davidson| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-19-513245-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofwome00oxfo}}
- {{cite book| title=Window: glimpses of our storied past| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zba6zQEACAAJ |editor=Genny Lim| publisher=Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center| year=2020| isbn=978-0578734583 }}
References
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External links
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- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/distinguishedasi00kimh| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/distinguishedasi00kimh/page/192 192]| quote=Genny Lim.| title=Distinguished Asian Americans: a biographical dictionary| author=Hyung-chan Kim| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| year=1999| isbn=978-0-313-28902-6 }}
- [http://www.jaimewright.ws/intergenny.html "Genny Lim, Poet and Beyond", Jaime Wright]
- [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/lim-genny.html "Genny Lim", doollee]
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Category:American feminists of Asian descent
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Category:New College of California faculty
Category:American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent
Category:American women dramatists and playwrights