Franny Choi

Franny Choi is the author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), as well as the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Choi earned a BA at Brown University and an MFA at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program, where she won Hopwood Awards in Poetry and Drama. She has been a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, as well as fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, The Poetry Review, The Abolitionist, and elsewhere. During her tenure as a Project VOICE teaching artist, she taught students of all ages and levels of experience. She is a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College, and a member of the multidisciplinary artists of color collective Dark Noise. From 2017 to 2021, she was a co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast, VS.