Floating, Brilliant, Gone

In her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Beginning in loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone explores life as a brief impossibility, "infinite / until it isn't."
Punctuated with haunting illustrations by Jess X. Snow, Choi's poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments. Floating, Brilliant, Gone (2014) is Choi's debut poetry collection published by Write Bloody Publishing.

Franny Choi is a Korean American poet, educator, and writer. She was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. She is known for her poetry collections including ""Soft Science"" (2019), ""Floating, Brilliant, Gone"" (2014), and ""The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On"" (2022). Her work often explores themes of identity, technology, gender, and Asian American experience. Choi has also been active in the poetry slam community and was a finalist in various national poetry slams. She co-hosts the VS podcast with Danez Smith, and has taught at Williams College and served as the Poe-Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia.