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Khairani Barokka is a writer and artist from Jakarta, and Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and aims to centre disability justice as anticolonial praxis.
Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation's Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, an Artforum Must-See, UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK). Okka's work includes being author-illustrator of Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), author of Rope (Nine Arches), and co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches).
Her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize.