His writing has been published in over 50 anthologies, magazines and journals, including the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood (Delacorte Press, 2021).ĭean holds an MA Writer/Teacher from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA Philosophy & English from the University of Sussex. His debut young-adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo (Hodder Children’s Books, 2019), won the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award, CILIP Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award, West Sussex School Librarians' Amazing Book Awards, What Kids are Reading Quiz Writers’ Choice Award and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Reader Award, CILIP Carnegie Medal, Jhalak Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and The Bookseller's YA Book Prize.ĭean has been commissioned to write poems for BBC World Service, Dazed & Confused, Keats House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, National Theatre of Scotland, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. His books have been praised by the likes of Bernardine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman.ĭean's debut poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger (The Westbourne Press, 2013), was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.
Dean’s poems have been highly commended by the Forward Prizes for Poetry and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition. He is a Malika's Poetry Kitchen member, National Poetry Day ambassador and LGBT+ History Month patron. Dean Atta is a British author from London.
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