Visiting Writer: Malika Booker
Schedule
Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 03:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
The Wittliff Collections | San Marcos, TX
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Visiting Writer: Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series with Torch Literary Arts: Torch Writers Across the DiasporaEVENT DETAILS
Reading + Q&A: February 18, 2026, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
The Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University
BIO
Malika Booker, currently based in Leeds, is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, and co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective). 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). A Cave Canem Fellow, and inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Malika was awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022)
Visit the department website for more info about the TKL literary series and TKL events:
https://www.english.txst.edu/about/tkl/tkl-author-bios.html
If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact (512)245-2163 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.
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