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  • Frying Plantain

    Frying Plantain - Paperback

    Frying Plantain - Paperback

    By Zalika Reid-Benta
  • River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism

    River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism - Paperback

    River Mumma: A Breathtaking Fantasy Novel Brimming with Magical Realism - Paperback

    By Zalika Reid-Benta

About Zalika Reid-Benta Books

Zalika Reid-Benta is a Toronto-based writer whose debut story collection, Frying Plantain, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Frying Plantain was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and it was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, the White Pine Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Zalika served as the 2021-2022 Writer in Residence at Western University and was the chair of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She received an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and is an alumnus of the Banff Centre Writing Studio.