Khairani Barokka is a writer, poet, artist, and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths in Visual Cultures. Published and working internationally, she is the writer/performer/producer of Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee, co-editor of HEAT: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (Buku Fixi, 2016), Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, 2017), writer-illustrator of Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis, 2016), and author of Rope (Nine Arches, 2017). Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, has received six residencies, and was recognised by UNFPA as an Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change.