Dean Atta: podcast appearances and interviews

Dean Atta is a British poet of Greek Cypriot and Caribbean descent. He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the United Kingdom by The Independent newspaper. In 2012, his poem 'I Am Nobody's Nigger,' written in response to the use of a racial slur in the context of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, gained significant social media attention and was profiled in The Guardian. Atta holds a BA degree in Philosophy and English from the University of Sussex, where he served as president of the African Caribbean Society. His poetry, which explores themes of identity and social justice, has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and commissioned by institutions such as the Keats House Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, Tate Britain, and Tate Modern. He served as a judge for the BBC Young Writers Award in 2018. In 2019, his verse novel The Black Flamingo was published by Hachette UK and it received the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adults category in 2020. The book was praised by author Malorie Blackman. His poem 'I Come From' was adapted into a film by Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi. Atta was the runner-up in the 2024 Caterpillar Poetry Prize and his short film 'Two Black Boys in Paradise' received multiple award nominations in 2025.