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Khairani Barokka (Okka)

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Khairani Barokka (Okka) is a writer and artist from Jakarta, and Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. Her work aims to centre disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and has been presented widely internationally. Among her honours, she’s been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing, and an Artforum Must-See. Okka is currently shortlisted for the 2023 Asian Women of Achievement Awards, in the Arts and Culture Category. Her latest book is poetry collection Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize.