Attica Locke

Attica Locke was born and raised in Texas. She graduated from Northwestern University. Her first novel, Black Water Rising was a worldwide hit and was nominated for an Edgar Award and a NAACP Image Award in 2010. The book also received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was selected for an Orange Prize in the UK. Her second edition, The Cutting Season, is a national bestseller and won the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Locke has written scripts for Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros Twentieth Century Fox, HBO, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. She is also the writer /producer of Empire (Fox drama series). Attica was a member at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab. She presently lives L A California with her spouse and daughter.