Dean Atta is the author of YA novels-in-verse The Black Flamingo and Only on the Weekends. Named as ‘one of poetry’s greatest modern voices’ (Gay Times). 

The Black Flamingo was a top-selling debut of 2020 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, CILIP Carnegie Medal, The Jhalak Prize and The YA Book Prize. The Black Flamingo was also awarded the prestigious Stonewall Book Award and the Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award 2020, and sold to the US in a five-way publisher auction.

In 2024, Dean published Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body, an intimate meditation on bodies, age and self-acceptance and Confetti, his debut picture book

Dean was the keynote at the 2024 First Story Young Writers Festival.