Genny (Genevieve) Lim was born on 15 December 1946, in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. She is an American

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, 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. 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

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, and later with a certificate in broadcast journalism from

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in 1973. She teaches at the

California Institute of Integral Studies California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private university in San Francisco, California.Otterman, Sharon. "Merging Spirituality and Clinical Psychology at Columbia". ''New York Times'', Aug. 9, 2012Aanstoos, C. Serlin, I., & Greenin ...

She lives in

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with her two daughters, Colette and Danielle. Her papers are held at

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Awards

* 1981

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

from the

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* 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. * James Wong Howe Award for ''Paper Angels'' (Premiered July 2000, UC Zellerbach Playhouse).

Works

* * * Contributed to

This Bridge Called My Back ''This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'' is a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, first published in 1981 by Persephone Press. The second edition was published in 1983 by Kitchen Tabl ...

in 1981. * Featured poet in festivals that took place in Venezuela, Sarajevo, Italy and Bosnia-Hercegovina (2007).

Poetry

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Plays

Anthologies

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References

External links

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"Genny Lim, Poet and Beyond", ''Jaime Wright''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lim, Genny 1946 births Asian-American feminists San Francisco State University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni New College of California faculty Living people American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent American writers of Chinese descent American women dramatists and playwrights American Book Award winners 21st-century American women