Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back

About

Khairani Barokka is a translator editor writer and artist from Jakarta. In 2023 Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards. Okkas work has been presented widely internationally and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis and access as translation. Among her honours she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change and Associate Artist at the UKs National Centre for Writing. Okkas books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis) Rope (Nine Arches) and Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (as co-editor; Nine Arches). Her latest books are Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches) shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize and 2024's amuk (Nine Arches). Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back. His second collection 'the terrible' was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015. He has appeared widely in UK poetry journals and his third collection single window about living with disability and chronic pain is published by Nine Arches Press in September 2021.