Genevieve (Genny) Lim (born December 15, 1946, in San Francisco, California)^[1] 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.^[2] She was the Chair of Community Arts and Education Committee, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the San Francisco Writers Corps.^[3] 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.^[3]

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.^[4][5] Her papers are held at University of California Santa Barbara.^[6]

• 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

• Wings of Lai Ho. Translated by Gordon Lew. Illustrator Andrea Ja Chinese. 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.
• Contributed to This Bridge Called My Back in 1981.
• Featured poet in festivals that took place in Venezuela, Sarajevo, Italy and Bosnia-Hercegovina (2007).^[3]

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Hyung-chan Kim (1999). Distinguished Asian Americans: a biographical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-313-28902-6. Genny Lim.
• "Genny Lim, Poet and Beyond", Jaime Wright
• "Genny Lim", doollee