Krista Franklin
Writer and visual artist Krista Franklin lives and works in Chicago. She earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Her two main works are Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018) and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She has published and exhibited her work in different literary magazines, anthologies and galleries such as Poetry magazine, BOMB Magazine, The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape (2018), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015), The Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center and The Cornell Fine Arts Museum. She often collaborates in different projects with fellow artists who incorporate her writing to performances, prints, audio recordings and film voiceovers. She earned the Cave Canem fellowship and her work is often linked with Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism, two cultural movements that explore the intersection between the African Diaspora, technology, the present, history, folklore and myth.
Krista Franklin es una escritora y artista visual radicada en la ciudad de Chicago. Es egresada del programa de MFA en Artes Interdisciplinarias del Columbia College Chicago. Su trabajo ha sido publicado y expuesto en distintas revistas literarias y antologías, así como en diversas galerías. Por ejemplo: Poetry magazine, BOMB Magazine, The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape (2018), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015), The Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center y The Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Ha colaborado con artistas contemporáneos en numerosos proyectos, incorporando sus textos a performances, grabaciones de audio, guiones cinematográficos y grabados. Obtuvo la residencia por parte de la Cave Canem Foundation, un prestigioso programa para poetas afroamericanos. Su trabajo se asocia con el Afrofuturismo y el Afrosurrealismo, dos movimientos culturales y estéticos que exploran las intersecciones entre la Diáspora africana, la tecnología, el presente, la historia, el folclore y el mito.
