Dena Igusti

DENA IGUSTI

is a queer Indonesian poet & playwright. Alongside using playwriting and poetry to preserve archives of queer Indonesian and Southeast Asian diasporic migration in New York City, they use writing to advocate for LGBTQ+ survivors of gender-based violence. They have served as an advisory board member for the New York City Council’s FGM/C Advisory Committee. They have two poetry collections, ECDYSIS: CACOPHONY OF SKINS (2025) and CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, US 2020). Their work appears in PEN America, Womanly Mag, LA Times, Public Theater, HERE Arts, and more. They are a National Queer Theater Artist Collective Fellow, New York for Arts & Culture Resident Artist, Radical Dreamyard at Guggenheim Fellow, Asian American Arts Alliance Grant Recipient, NYFA Women’s Fund Recipient, NeXT Doc Fellow, Brooklyn Public Library Heritage Ambassador, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, and more.