Lim has performed at numerous jazz festivals and venues coast to coast, including the SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Her poetry and vocals can be heard on Asian ImprovArts recordings with Francis Wong, Devotee and Child of Peace and on Jon Jang’s Immigrant Suite. She is the author of the award-winning play, Paper Angels, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, as well as several poetry collections, including Paper Gods and Rebels. Lim is the second SFJAZZ Poet Laureate.