Malika Booker

Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. Her pamphlet Breadfruit received a Poetry Society recommendation and her collection Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for first full collection. She is published with Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in Penguin Modern Poets 3.

Malika received her MA from Goldsmiths University and has begun a PhD at the University of Newcastle. She was the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds University, the first British poet to be a fellow at Cave Canem, and the inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Malika hosts and curates New Caribbean Voices, Peepal Tree Press’s literary podcast, and is currently a poetry Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The Little Miracles, originally published in Magma’s Loss issue, won the 2020 Forward Prize for best single poem.