Poet Malika Booker has joined Manchester Metropolitan's Manchester Writing School.
Malika has joined Manchester Writing School as Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Booker is an international writer of poetry, radio and theatre and was the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her first poetry collection ‘Pepper Seed’ was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize in 2014.
She chaired the Forward Prizes for Poetry judging panel in 2016, and judged the Foyles Young Poet of the Year competition in the same year.
