Franny Choi is a poet and essayist.
Their books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022); a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry; and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Franny’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. They co-edited the anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word alongside Terisa Siagatonu, Noʻu Revilla, and Bao Phi. Franny is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge; however, their current gayest title is “Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.” Franny’s first essay collection is forthcoming from Ecco Press. It’s sort of about robots, but mostly about being queer, Asian, and alive.
photo: Francesca B. Marie