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Zalika Reid-Benta is a born and bred Toronto writer, TV fanatic and cheeseburger enthusiast. In 2011 George Elliott Clarke recommended her as a “Writer to Watch”. Her work has appeared on the CBC website, in the TOK 7 anthology and in Apogee Journal. She is an alum of the 2017 Banff Writer’s Studio and received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University in 2014. Her work explores matters of intergenerational cycles, race, identity and culture through the lens of second-generation Caribbean Canadians. Her collection of linked short stories, Frying Plantain, is currently on offer and she is working on a fantasy YA novel.
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Zalika Reid-Benta recommends
Black Cherokee (2025)
Antonio Michael Downing
"Downing's prose is both lyrical and controlled and weaves together a story that is, at once expansive and intimate, expertly blending the personal with the sweeping nature of the historical. A true and passionate storyteller."
Such Big Dreams (2022)
Reema Patel
"A page-turner of a story that doesn't shy away from exploring hard and painful truths about the way people navigate the systemic conditions of society."
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