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Malika Booker

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Biography

Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. She is co-founder of Malika’s kitchen, a writer’s collective based in London, Chicago and New York. She was the first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first collection, Pepper Seed, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. She won the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for ‘The Little Miracles’ (Magma Poetry).

Awards

2020 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, Forward Prizes for Poetry

Years Attended

2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant

Malika Booker

Author
Grenada, Guyana, UK
Events Featuring Malika Booker
2022
Bocas UK Tour 2022
Bocas UK Tour Event
Event Date: October 26, 2022 @ 8:00 am
United Kingdom