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American writer (born 1974)

Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.

Career

Locke graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1995,^[1] and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, where she studied screenwriting and directing.^[2][3] 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.^[4] Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix's When They See Us and the Hulu adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere.^[5][6][7]

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 Scrat