Jhani Randhawa

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Los Angeles, CA

Year at Millay: 2020

Fellowship: Yasmin Fellowship

Awards/Honors: Gold Medal Winner, Poetry, 92nd Annual California Book Award, Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, San Francisco, CA (2023); Writers-in-Residence, Writers House Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2022); Prize Winner, Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, Singapore Unbound, New York, NY (2021); Finalist, Emerging Voices Fellowship, PEN America, New York, NY (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI (2019).

Website: https://jfkrandhawa.com/bio

Jhani Randhawa is an interdisciplinary artist, community organiser, and researcher interested in the limits of desire, legality, and self within the ongoing crises of settler colonialism, racial capitalism and ecological collapse. Jhani’s performances and works have featured at the New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, England), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Thymele Arts (Los Angeles, California), the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin), and the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California, as well as in publications A Mouth Holds Many Things (de-Canon/Fonograf Editions), Gulf Coast, ASAP/Journal, 128 Lit, Broken Lens Journal, Soap Ear, Bæst Journal, Tagvverk, and o bod, among others. Their debut collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) won the California Book Award for Poetry in 2023.