Franny Choi is a poet and essayist.
Their debut essay collection, We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg (forthcoming October 2026 from Ecco) is sort of about robots, but mostly about being queer, Asian, and alive. They are also the author of the poetry collections The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014); and a co-editor of the anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024). Franny is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge, a project to build connections between writers and social justice movements. Their gayest honor to date is “Former Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.”
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