Welcome to our monthly series, Get to Know! Here, we'll turn the spotlight on contemporary poets and writers, with the goal of amplifying under-represented voices in literature. These writers' books are currently available in the Women Writing for (a) Change library.

A queer, Korean femme, Franny Choi knew from the get-go the challenges awaiting her. And, as we so often do, she channels at least some of her experience into writing: "in fourth grade / i wanted to be a writer & worried / about how to escape my surname -- choi / is nothing if not korean." Much of her work explores ways to exploit challenging identities. As she says to The Paris Review, "the ability to alter our images and to play with the way we present our bodies is a fundamental queer and femme superpower. The book dives into that and says, if we continue down that line of thought, then what other possibilities are opened up?"