Krishna (she/her) is the eldest daughter in a Kenyan-Indian family who was raised in sunny Gurambilbarra (Townsville), Queensland. She approaches stories like a manic dinner party host – she’ll add a little something to please everyone but it still may end up too spicy for someone. Supported by a writer’s room of her 11-strong family, Krishna loves experimenting with different lenses, genres and tones with the goal of bringing back entertainment that gets the whole family in one room again.

Krishna got her start working for regional arts powerhouse Dancenorth in 2019. Founding Diversion Creative in the throes of Covid boredom in Australia, she wrote and directed her first speculative / sci-fi audio drama Tides, its prequel short film Gothenburg and comedy musical sh!tshow, all supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund and Pop Up North Queensland festival.

In 2022, sh!tshow premiered internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe while she worked for the Edinburgh TV Festival.​

After graduating with Honours from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, Krishna worked as a Writer’s Room Assistant for Keshet International in London, supporting creatives and producers through the pre-production process across a slate of returning and developing series.

Returning to Queensland in 2023, Krishna worked as a Production Coordinator for BLEACH* Festival and as a Locations Attachment on La Brea Season 3. She was also selected for Playlab Theatre’s Incubator program to write her first full length play Nebulous, and devised a short work entitled Hidden for La Boite Theatre’s Assembly program.

As the inaugural Prime Video scholarship winner in NIDA’s MFA Dramatic Writing program, Krishna was commissioned to adapt the Medusa myth for NIDA’s Festival of Emerging Artists in 2025, which is currently back in development as a full-length musical theatre work. Additionally, she is the writer and director of upcoming short films Shoehorned and Asphodel produced through Diversion Creative.

Krishna is currently developing Open Up, a comedy TV series based on her love-hate relationship with North Queensland, and a tabletop game Secrets to the Sea, loosely inspired by her interactive web series Tides. She continues to spotlight regional voices and stories, especially those of the Asian diaspora, as a memoir ghostwriter. Her favourite part of being a writer is getting to see inside the delicious brains of her collaborators, and honing in on the story that unites all their individual impulses.