Genny Lim is a native San Franciscan poet-vocalist, performer, director, playwright and educator. Lim has appeared in numerous jazz poetry concerts and festivals, including the San Francisco and Chicago Asian American Jazz Festivals, Koncept’s Jazz in Tongues, Border Voices in San Diego and the North Beach Jazz Festival.

She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship for a collaboration with Jon Jang and James Newton, Songlines: A Tribute to Paul Robeson and Mei Lanfang, which premiered in June 2000 at U.C. Berkeley’s Zellerbach Playhouse and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Lim can be heard on Jon Jang’s 1997 CD Soul Note release, Immigrant Suite and on Asian Improv’s CD, Devotee, with Francis Wong and the late Glen Horiuchi.

She was featured in the five-part PBS series, The United States of Poetry, on KQED-TV’s, San Francisco Chinatown and on PBS’s, Pins and Noodles, by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger.

Lim’s award winning play, Paper Angels, was broadcast on American Playhouse in 1985. She is the author of a collection of poems, Winter Place, and co-author of ISLAND: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.

Lim is on the faculty of New College of California, the University of Creation Spirituality and Naropa Institute.