Dena Igusti is a queer Indonesian Muslim playwright and poet. Alongside using playwriting and poetry to preserve archives of Indonesian and Southeast Asian diasporic migration in New York City, they use writing to highlight the importance of queer survivor advocacy and survivor-led initiatives that hold cultural, religious, and racially marginalized nuance. They have served as an advisory board member at Sahiyo and the FGM/C Advisory Committee for New York City Council. They have two poetry collections, ECDYSIS: CACOPHONY OF SKINS (Fourteen Poems, UK 2025) and CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, US 2020). They are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater (2023 A is For Winner, Miranda Family Fund Commission).They are the Inaugural NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner. Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, The Margins, and other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times, HERE Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Women Deliver, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Players Theatre, The Public, and more. They have been featured in Business Insider, Teen Vogue, American Theatre Magazine, and more. They are a 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.