Galactic Yo-yo Creators & Guests

Talia Franks (they/them) is a poet, writer, podcaster, cosplayer, and translator from Massachusetts. Talia Franks grew up wanting to be a professional polymath and at some point realized that was basically code for nerd. They are a co-host and the executive producer for The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Podcast.Talia likes their feminism intersectional and their entertainment diverse, in every project they undertake and in all of their writing they center the six themes of intuition, equity, community, creation, and joy. They follow their intuition, they strive for equity in all situations, they work in community, and they create things that bring joy to themself and to others.An active and critical participant in the Doctor Who, Marvel, and Percy Jackson fandoms, Talia writes regularly on Word-for-Sense and Other Stories and they have contributed to multiple outlets such as Black Nerds Create, Cambridge Day and Nerdist. They are a contributor to These Bewitching Bonds: A Black Girls Create Anthology and have written reviews of poetry and prose in translation for Three Percent, a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester. Their poetry and translations have appeared in Mass Poetry’s The Hard Work of Hope and the Brandeis University publications Jaded and Ebony Axis. They are an alum of the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference and of the Columbia Publishing Course, and earned a Master of Arts in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University.When not reading, writing, podcasting, or translating Talia enjoys hiking, swimming, meditation, spending time with friends and family, indexing their personal library, and trying to find more time in their schedule to read.