She co-edited a special issue of Wasafiri magazine, Black Britain: Beyond Definition (2010), which celebrated and reevaluated the black writing scene in Britain, and was guest editor of of Poetry Review, with her issue, Offending Frequencies (2012), featuring more poets of colour than had previously been published in a single issue of the journal. In 2012 she was Chair of both the Caine Prize for African Fiction and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has won several awards and her books have been a ‘Book of the Year’ twelve times in British newspapers. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006. She was awarded an MBE in 2009.

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