Jhani Randhawa

Jhani Randhawa is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is interested in transnational feminisms, comparative masculinities, grief practices, and formations of friendship across species, oceans, and consciousness. Jhani’s debut collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022) won the 2023 California Book Award for Poetry, and their writing has appeared most recently in Gulf Coast, Little Mirror, Osmosis Press, diode, O BOD, 128 LIT, and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection (de-Canon/Fonograf Editions, 2024). Jhani is a contributing editor of Jagdeep Raina: Beautiful Zameen (forthcoming from PS Guelph), a reflection on entangled global impacts of agricultural technology experiments.

Jhani’s performance, video art, and dramaturgy has been presented at the Helen Kanitkar Anthropology Library, CICA Museum, Thymele Arts, Couerage Ensemble, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, and the Wooden Mill Gallery. Jhani has been a finalist for a PEN Emerging Writers Fellowship and UNESCO Youth Research grant. Their research has received recognition from the Richard Bonney Literary Fund, the Laura Bassi Foundation, Writers House Pittsburgh, Millay Arts, and the Wormfarm Institute.