Franny Choi

Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s debut essay collection, We Radiant Things, explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language.

Franny Choi is the author of three poetry collections, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2023), Soft Science(Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). They are Faculty in Literature at Bennington College and founded Brew & Forge, a project that aims to build connections between writers, artists, and organizers.