Genny Lim is the 9 th San Francisco Poet Laureate and former San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She was also a former SF Arts Commissioner and a recipient of the Spirit of Angel Island Award given by the Angel Island Immigration Foundation for translating the poems of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island in the American Book Award winning work, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, co-authored with Him Mark Lai and Judy Yung. Her play, Paper Angels, was the first Asian American play to air on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985. Lim has received the PEN Oakland Reginald Lockett and Berkeley Poetry Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is the author of several poetry collections, Child of War, Paper Gods & Rebels and KRA!