Malika Booker
Dr Malika Booker lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University, and co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. A Cave Canem Fellow, Complete Works Fellow, Malika was elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022) and is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023).
