Elected: 2022
Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage, who co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for OCM Bocas and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. Published with poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017), her awards include: The Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem (2020). Cave Canem and University of Leeds Douglas Castor fellowships. She lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
