Attica Locke is a NY Times best-selling author known for her gripping novels and captivating storytelling. Her sixth novel, Guide Me Home, concludes the Edgar-Award winning Highway 59 trilogy, which includes Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home set for release in September 2024.

Locke is also renowned for Pleasantville, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, and long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction, and The Cutting Season, which earned the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her debut novel, Black Water Rising, was met with critical acclaim, receiving nominations for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

As a talented screenwriter and television producer, Locke has contributed to various popular series, including Empire, When They See Us, and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image Award for television writing. She co-created and executive produced an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke’s memoir From Scratch for Netflix. Currently, she is in a multi-year development deal with Universal Television, working on adaptations of her Highway 59 series, among other projects.

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