Franny Choi is a poet and essayist.
They are the author of the essay collection We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg (forthcoming in 2026 from Ecco) and three collections of poetry, including The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022) and Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019). They also co-edited the anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024), and their work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge, a project that builds connections between writers and social justice movements. Their gayest honor to date is “Former Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.”
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