Malaika Kegode is an award-winning writer, performer and creative producer based in Bristol. Her work is focused on uplifting and celebrating the overlooked and misunderstood. Beginning her arts career as a performance poet in 2014, Malaika has since developed her practice to encompass theatre, radio and film writing.

Her gig-theatre show Outlier, an autobiographical piece about addiction and isolation in rural England performed with prog-rock band Jakabol was the first piece of new writing to appear on Bristol Old Vic’s main stage in 2021. Malaika’s work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and Black Ballad. Malaika has also collaborated on writing Tiata Fahadzi: Talking About a Revolution alongside writers Diana Nneka Atuona and babirye bukilwa, which runs at Bristol Old Vic 19 - 22 Oct 2022. Her poetry collections Requite and Thalassic are published by Burning Eye Books.

Malaika also works in film. She is currently an associate curator at Watershed in Bristol, a resident at Encounters Film Festival and the recipient of the Elspeth Kydd Memorial Prize for Film Studies.