Dr Christy Dena is a writer-designer-director who has just been granted Australia’s first Digital Writing Residency at The Cube for her project “Robot University,” funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and QUT. In 2012, she was the “Digital Writing Ambassador” for the Emerging Writers Festival; and a prototype of her project “AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS” was Finalist for “Best Writing in a Game” Award at the Freeplay Independent Gaming Festival. Christy co-wrote “The Writers Guide to Making a Digital Living” for the Australian Literature Board. Christy is Professor Adjunct at Creative Industries, QUT; and wrote a PhD on Transmedia Practice at the University of Sydney.
PhD University of Sydney