This might be my most personal conversation to date.  In this episode, I sit down with Attica Locke. In case you don't know, she is the author of five books; her latest novel, Heaven, My Home, is the sequel to her Edgar Award-Winning Bluebird, Bluebird, and it is also a New York Times Bestseller. Her novel Pleasantville was a winner of the Harper Lee prize for Legal Ficton, her second book, The Cutting Season, was the winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Black Water Rising, her debut novel, was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, an LA Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Attica is also a screenwriter and TV producer, with credits including Empire, When They See Us, and Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image Award for screenwriting. She also happens to be my sister. Together, we co-created and adapted From Scratch, but it was her role as showrunner and as sister that made our whole series happen.



Guest Bio:
A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Attica Locke is an author, showrunner, screenwriter and producer, with credits that include Empire, When They See Us and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing.

Most recently, she served as showrunner, an executive producer, and co-creator, alongside her sister Tembi, for the Netflix series From Scratch. An adaptation of Tembi’s memoir of the same name, the series, produced by Hello Sunshine, landed on Netflix’s Top Ten List in its first week on the platform.

Attica Locke is a New York Times best-selling author of five novels. Her novels include, Heaven, My Home, sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird; Pleasantville, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction; The Cutting Season, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and her debut, Black Water Rising, which 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. 

A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

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