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name: "Attica Locke"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T13:54:10.508840+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Attica Locke

Producer. Born 1 January 1974 in Houston, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1974, Houston, Texas, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Locke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4818340, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5148534/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2057612

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*When They See Us*](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Attica Locke is an American novelist and television writer and producer. She was born in 1974 in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1995. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999.

Her novels include *Black Water Rising* (2009), *The Cutting Season* (2012), *Pleasantville* (2015), *Bluebird, Bluebird* (2017) and *Heaven, My Home* (2019). On television she has written for *Empire* (2015) and contributed the teleplay for an episode of *When They See Us* (2019). She also wrote for the Hulu series *Little Fires Everywhere* (2020) and co-created the Netflix series *From Scratch* (2022) with her sister Tembi Locke.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, atticalocke.com, tvmaze.com, magazine.northwestern.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, Consulting Producer, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *From Scratch* (2022), series, Teleplay, Creator
- *Little Fires Everywhere* (2020), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *When They See Us* (2019), series, Consulting Producer, Teleplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *Empire* (2015), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Attica Locke](https://film.one/media/person/721585/gallery-a84789fc176d.jpg) Attica Locke — Jenny Walters, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Attica_Locke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Writer and producer of Empire, Attica Locke, addresses the crowd after accepting the Voice Award on her show's behalf. She is joined by her co-writer and produc (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/721585/gallery-2f47856b9143.jpg) Writer and producer of Empire, Attica Locke, addresses the crowd after accepting the Voice Award on her show's behalf. She is joined by her co-writer and produc (2015) — SAMHSA from Rockville, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/%22VOICE_AWARDS-2015%22_%2820982770643%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joshua Allen and Attica Locke, writers and producers of the show Empire, stand with their 2015 Voice Award. They are joined by Sonay Washington Hoffman from Wri](https://film.one/media/person/721585/gallery-5ea099eb397d.jpg) Joshua Allen and Attica Locke, writers and producers of the show Empire, stand with their 2015 Voice Award. They are joined by Sonay Washington Hoffman from Wri — SAMHSA from Rockville, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/%22VOICE_AWARDS-2015%22_%2821409573660%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Author Attica Locke at the 2024 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States.](https://film.one/media/person/721585/gallery-f88fa77eb510.jpg) Author Attica Locke at the 2024 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Attica_Locke_2024_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg/1280px-Attica_Locke_2024_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Author Attica Locke at the 2012 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States.](https://film.one/media/person/721585/gallery-7fee52b912a7.jpg) Author Attica Locke at the 2012 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Attica_locke_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Anthony Award for Best Novel 2018: Anthony Award for Best Novel (won), for *Bluebird, Bluebird*
- Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction 2016: Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction (won)
- Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence 2013: Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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