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Franny Choi

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Franny Choi
Franny Choi performing at a poetry slam
Franny Choi performing at a poetry slam
Born (1989-02-11) February 11, 1989 (age 35)
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
GenreSlam poetry

Franny Choi (born February 11, 1989)[citation needed] is an American writer, poet and playwright.[1]

Life

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Choi uses she and they pronouns.[1] She lived in Northampton, Massachusetts and now resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts.[2][3] Choi's parents are Choi Inyeong and Nam Songeun.[4] She is Korean-American. In high school, Choi was introduced to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and became interested in poetry's spoken form. In college, she joined a group for marginalized spoken poets, called WORD!, which was her introduction to slam poetry.[5]

Education and career

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Choi graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Arts and Ethnic Studies in 2011 and received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.[6] After graduating, she became a co-director of the Providence Poetry Slam. She founded the Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Danez Smith, Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall, and Aaron Samuels in 2012.[2]

Choi worked for Hyphen, a non-profit Asian-American culture magazine, as a senior editor. She was co-host, with Danez Smith, of the podcast VS.[2] She was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in English at Williams College; in 2022 she joined the undergraduate Literature Faculty at Bennington College.[7][8]

Awards

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Choi is a two-time winner of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam.[9] In 2020, Soft Science won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Award.[10]

Activism

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Choi promotes social activism through her poetry and writing.[11] In her poem "Whiteness Walks Into A Bar", she highlights institutionalized racism in the United States.[12] Other poems, like "furiosa", focus on feminism.[13] Choi curated a series of video poems by 12 queer Asian American and Pacific Islander poets for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.[14]

Bibliography

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Books

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Chapbooks

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Franny Choi". Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  2. ^ a b c "About". FRANNY CHOI. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  3. ^ "Northampton's new poet laureate lives in Greenfield: Franny Choi is 10th person to hold title". Greenfield Recorder. 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  4. ^ Choi, Franny (2022-08-21). "Choi Jeong Min". The Poetry Foundation.
  5. ^ Cordero, Karla (2014-11-03). "Interview with Franny Choi". Spit Journal. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  6. ^ "Franny Choi". english.williams.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  7. ^ "Franny Choi". Bennington College. 21 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Franny Choi". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  9. ^ Hale, Whitney (2019-09-19). "Franny Choi to Headline Wild Women of Poetry Slam". UKNow. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  10. ^ "Science Fiction Poetry Association". www.sfpoetry.com. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  11. ^ Segal, Corinne (30 November 2015). "Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police". PBS News. NewsHour Productions. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Franny Choi - "Whiteness Walks into a Bar"". Button Poetry. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  13. ^ Choi, Franny (2016). "ISSUE 12 FEATURE: FRANNY CHOI". Bat City Review. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  14. ^ "Queer Check-Ins". Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
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