Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is a writer, artist, arts consultant, translator and editor from Jakarta. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, environmental justice, and access as translation. She has a PhD by Practice in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. Among Okka’s honours, she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, a Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, an Artforum Must-See, and Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. She was the first Poet-in-Residence at Modern Poetry in Translation, and later became the magazine’s first non-British Editor. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in the Arts and Culture Category. Her books include Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches), Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches, shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize), amuk (Nine Arches, longlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize), and her 2025 creative nonfiction debut, Annah, Infinite (Tilted Axis).