She was a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow and has also received awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and Princeton University’s Lewis Center. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Choi is also the author of the chapbook Death By Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) and the debut collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2019). Her other books are Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), a Rumpus and Paris Review staff pick that Lit Hub praised as “a profoundly intelligent work which makes you feel.'' It was a Nylon Best Book of 2019, was awarded the Elgin Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 2020, and was a finalist for awards from Lambda Literary, Publishing Triangle, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her most recent book is The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (HarperCollins, 2022), an NPR 2022 Books We Love and Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, she is currently based near Detroit, Michigan.Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer of poems, essays, and more. Her second collection, Soft Science, was released from Alice James Books in April 2018. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Franny Choi is a poet, performer, editor, and playwright. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, she is currently based near Detroit, Michigan.

Death by Sex Machine by Franny Choi