Rani Ghazzaoui

Rani Ghazzaoui is a writer, poet, actor and communicator. Born in Brazil and a naturalised Australian, she has lived on Gadigal land since 2007.

An influential voice of the early internet era, Ghazzaoui published essays and poems throughout the 2000s on her now-archived blog Rani Ghazzaoui Said, cultivating a significant online following. In 2020, she reached a new generation of readers when she began posting poetry on Instagram (@ranighazzaoui). Writing in Portuguese and English, she works across poetry, essays, fiction and autofiction, examining themes of human vulnerability, love, feminism, relationships, society, politics and self-analysis.

Her work has appeared in the Brazilian anthology Posfácios (Hecatombe Publishing House) and digital literary publications such as Ruído Manifesto, Diversos Afins, and Red Room Poetry. Selected poems also form part of the high school literature curriculum in several Brazilian schools. Her debut collection, Aorta, was published in Brazil by Lyra das Artes in 2022 and released in English as an e-book in 2023.

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