Dean Atta

Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British author and poet from London with Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He is a Malika’s Poetry Kitchen member, National Poetry Day ambassador, and LGBT+ History Month patron. The Independent on Sunday listed Dean as one of the most influential LGBTQIA+ people in the UK, and his books have been praised by Bernardine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Malorie Blackman.

Dean’s debut poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger (The Westbourne Press, 2013), was on the shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize. His debut young-adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo (Hodder Children’s Books, 2019), won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award. His first picture book, Confetti, was published by Hachette Children’s Group in January 2024, and his first work of adult non-fiction, Person Unlimited, was published by Canongate in July 2024.