Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is a writer, editor, translator and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been published and presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and access as translation. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.
 
Among her honours, Okka has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, the first non-British Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing, an Artforum Must-See, and Modern Poetry in Translation's first Poet-in-Residence, and later, first Editor of colour. Okka’s books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Rope (Nine Arches), the Saboteur Award-nominated Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches), and Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize.

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