“Story is where we test what we believe.”

Christopher DeWan is a writer, creative producer, and narrative strategist who finds sublime moments and simple clarity inside complex things. His work explores collisions between emerging technology and human mores, and how they reveal hidden truths about ethics, identity, class, power, and what it means to be alive.

He creates stories across media including film and TV, video games, and print. He has developed original television properties with AwesomenessTV / Viacom, the Chernin Group, Electric Entertainment, and Showdog Studio, and has collaborated on game narratives for Bad Robot, Paramount, Universal, and Disney. His fiction has appeared in more than fifty publications; he’s featured in Best Small Fictions and is the author of Hoopty Time Machines (Atticus Books).

He’s currently a creative director at TELUS Digital and teaches creative writing and narrative design. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Cornell University.