Opere pubblicate
Awards
• 1981 American Book Award
• 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
• Wings of Lai Ho. Illustrator Andrea Ja Chinese translator Gordon Lew. San Francisco, Calif: East/West Pub. Co.. 1982.
• Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung, ed (June 1999). Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295971094.
Poetry
• Winter Place. Kearney St Workshop Press. ISBN 9780960963041.
• Child of War. University of Hawaii Press. January 2003. ISBN 9780970959737.
Plays
• Paper Angels and Bitter Cane/Two Plays. Kalamaku Press. December 1991. ISBN 9780962310218.
Anthologies
• Roberta Uno, ed (1993). "Paper Angels". Unbroken Thread: Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870238567.
• Velina Hasu Houston, Wakako Yamauchi, Genny Lim, ed (1993). The Politics of Experience: Four Plays by Asian American Women. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781566390019.
• Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson, ed (1999). Oxford Book of Women's Writing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195132458.
Nata a San Francisco, Genny Lim è l’attuale San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. È curatrice della San Francisco Jazz Center's Jazz Poetry Series. Ha presentato le sue poesie in collaborazione con le grandi leggende del jazz Max Roach, Herbie Lewis ed Eddie Marshall. Ha anche partecipato al World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela e a Sarajevo e Napoli con Casa della Poesia. La sua opera teatrale, che ha vinto numerosi premi, Paper Angels, sugli immigranti cinesi tenuti prigionieri ad Angel Island...