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Author Event: We Radiant Things by Franny Choi
Thu, Nov 05
|JustBook-ish
Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language.
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
About the event
Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, sexuality, disability, labor, technology, and language. Choi will be joined in conversation with author and mycophile, Maria Pinto.
Franny Choi (they/she) is the author of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 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). Their debut essay collection, We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg, is forthcoming in October 2026 from Ecco. Franny is currently Faculty in Literature at Bennington College. They live in Greenfield, MA with their partner (the poet Cameron Awkward-Rich) and two insane cats (Gertie and June). They are represented by Annie Hwang at Renegade Literary and by the Shipman Agency for booking. They are an Aquarius sun,…