Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, and co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). The Anthology– Two Young, Two Black, Too Different, Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen was recently published to celebrate Malika Poetry Kitchen’s 20-year anniversary. Her pamphlet Breadfruit, (flippedeye, 2007) received a Poetry Society recommendation and her poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 Prize for First Full Collection. She is published with the poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017). Booker and Shara McCallum recently co-edited an issue of Stand Journal curating an anthology of poems by African American, Black British, and Caribbean Women and Identifying Writers. A Cave Canem Fellow, and inaugural Poet-in-Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Malika was awarded the Cholmondeley Award for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow. She is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023).