Franny Choi is the author of several books, including The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco Books 2022), Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), and a chapbook, Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She was a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow and has received awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and Princeton University’s Lewis Center. Their poems have appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Atlantic, Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is currently Faculty in Literature at Bennington College and the Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.

After graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in Literary Arts and Ethnic Studies, Franny developed their writing practice in community with artists and activists in Providence, Rhode Island, where they were a Co-Director of the award-winning Providence Poetry Slam. In 2012, she joined with fellow artists Fatimah Asghar, Danez Smith, Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall, and Aaron Samuels to found the Dark Noise Collective. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she received an MFA in Poetry and a postgraduate Zell Fellowship.

Soft Science was named as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, a Massachusetts Book Award, the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and a Believer Book Award. Franny’s third collection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and was named one of Time's “100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” NPR's 2022 “Books We Love,” and Boston Globe's “Best Books of 2022.” They are at work on two forthcoming books: an essay collection about race, robots, and techno-Orientalism (under contract with Ecco) and an anthology, We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, co-edited with Terisa Siagatonu, No‘u Revilla, and Bao Phi.