Attica Locke

Attica Locke is an acclaimed novelist and writer/producer for television and film. Her novel Bluebird, Bluebird won the Edgar Award for best novel, was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named as a Best of 2017 book by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times. The sequel, Heaven, My Home, was published on September 17th, 2019. Her previous novel, Pleasantville, was the winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was also long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. Her first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her second book, The Cutting Season, was a winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Locke has both written and produced for the screen. She was a writer and producer on the Netflix miniseries, When They See Us, directed by Ava Duvernay; Hulu’s limited series, Little Fires Everywhere; and the Fox drama Empire. She most recently developed and was the showrunner for limited series From Scratch on Netflix with Zoe Saldana starring, based off her sister, Tembi Locke’s, bestselling novel. She is developing several other television projects, as well as plotting the next two novels in the Highway 59 series. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.