{"id":14735,"date":"2025-10-28T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=14735"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:11:45","slug":"s04-e02-dean-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/10\/28\/s04-e02-dean-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"s04 e02 | Dean Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Filmmaker, poet and writer for all ages, award-winning Dean Atta is also a member of Malika\u2019s Poetry Kitchen and a patron of LGBT+ History Month. He encourages writers to lean all the way into topics they love, no matter how small or niche. His works are celebrated for tackling themes of racism and self-acceptance. He\u2019s the author of the poetry collection \u2018There Is (Still) Love Here\u2019 and the YA verse novels \u2018The Black Flamingo\u2019 (which won the Stonewall Book Award) and \u2018Only on the Weekends\u2019. 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