Krista Franklin, a writer and visual artist, is the author of Too Much Midnight, the artist book Under the Knife, and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body. Her visual art has exhibited at the Poetry Foundation, Konsthall C, Rootwork Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, and on the set of 20th Century Fox’s Empire. She has been published in Poetry, Black Camera, The Offing, Vinyl, and in anthologies and artist books.