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.

A notorious internet writer in the 2000s, Ghazzaoui shared essays and poems on her now-extinct blog, Rani Ghazzaoui Said. She returned to visibility in 2020 by sharing her poetry on Instagram ( @ranighazzaoui). She writes poetry, essays, fiction and autofiction in Portuguese and English about a variety of themes that examine human vulnerability. Frequent subjects are 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 integrate the literature high school curriculum of several Brazilian schools. Her debut collection Aorta — essays and poems — was published in Brazil by Lyra das Artes in 2022 and in English, as an ebook, in 2023.

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