Attica Locke

Attica Locke is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.

Career

Locke graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1995, and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, where she studied screenwriting and directing. She has written scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, 20th Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and DreamWorks. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire. Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix's When They See Us and the Hulu adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere.
In 2021, it was announced that Locke would serve as executive producer and showrunner for the Netflix Limited Series From Scratch, an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke's 2019 memoir entitled From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home. It premiered on Netflix in October 2022.
In 2023, she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer.

Locke was born in Houston, Texas, to parents who were active in the civil rights movement at the turn of the 1970s. They named her after the 1971 Attica Prison rebellion in upstate New York.
She now lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. Actress Tembi Locke is her older sister.
She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

2013: Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence – The Cutting Season,
2016:, 2016 – Pleasantville – the award is sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the American Bar Association Journal.
2018: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel of the Year – Bluebird, Bluebird
2018: Anthony Award for Best Novel – Bluebird, Bluebird
2018: CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award – Bluebird, Bluebird
2020: Staunch Book Prize – ''Heaven, My Home''

For Bluebird, Bluebird:

For Pleasantville:

For The Cutting Season:

For Black Water Rising: