In 2016 she became the third poet in a row, after Jamaican-born poets Kei Miller and Claudia Rankine, to win the Forward Prize for Best Collection with Measures of Expatriation. Malika Booker, Chair of the Forward Jury, said ‘This is poetry that transforms. When people in the future seek to know what it’s like to live between places, traditions and cultures – they will read this.’