Khairani Barokka is an Indonesian writer, poet and artist in London whose work has been presented extensively, in 15 countries. She was Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, and is Researcher-in-Residence and Research Fellow at UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute. Her books are Rope (Nine Arches) and Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis; Vietnamese translation by Red (Yen Hai), AJAR Press), and she is co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches). You can find out more about Khairani’s work here.