Margaret Rhee is an award-winning poet who explores the subjects of robots, race, sexuality and the human body. Her debut collection, Love, Robot (2017), an experimental text about romantic relationships between humans and technology, was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association, the Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and named the 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy magazine.

4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room
Campus Center West Addition
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12222
Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale.
A signing will follow the conversation.

Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen said, “In a paradoxical and wonderful way, Margaret Rhee's robot love affairs make us rethink what it might mean to be human.”

Chair of Arts Writing at The New School in New York City, she is currently completing two books with Duke University Press: Machine Dreams: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body, and Poetry Machines — essays on poetry and technology.