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Join us in welcoming Franny Choi in conversation with MT Vallarta. Choi is a queer, Korean American writer whose work is centered at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history, and the speculative imagination. In 2016, she founded Brew & Forge, a project focused on building connections between writers and movement workers. Choi is currently a Poetry Editor at the Massachusetts Review and Faculty in Literature at Bennington College.
 
An audience question and answer session will follow the conversation, providing an opportunity for the audience to directly engage with Choi and Vallarta.

The in-person event will conclude with book signings. Open to the public.

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Livestream provided by Dartmouth Media Production Group on YouTube: http://dartgo.org/vis23-frannychoi

Free copies of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (HarperCollins, 2022) will be given to the first 50 undergraduate students in attendance (Dartmouth ID required).

Copies of The World Keeps Ending and a selection of Choi’s other books, will be available for purchase on-site form Still North Books.

Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer of poems, essays, and more. 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. 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. 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). 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. She co-hosts the poetry podcast VS with Danez Smith.

MT Vallarta is a poet and the current Frank J. Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College, with an appointment in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. A Kundiman fellow, Roots. Wounds. Words. fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee, their poetry collection, What You Refuse to Remember, will be published October 2023 with Small Harbor Editions.
 
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Visibility:2023 is Dartmouth’s annual student-led campaign to promote gender equity and combat power-based violence. For more information and/or accommodations, email Assistant Dean Amanda Wong at opal.wag@dartmouth.edu.