Emma Austin grew up in a small town in the middle of the Mojave Desert, where the children's pastimes included normal things such as digging sand tunnels, jumping in dirt clouds, and pulling the tails off lizards. In elementary school she took it upon herself to force her classmates to produce a monthly class newspaper in both fourth and fifth grade, in addition to her writing, directing, and again forcing her classmates to be in the first-ever school play in the later part of that last year. During her junior year at University of California Irvine she was awarded a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to pursue a creative writing project on the evolution of the devil through lore, with advising by faculty member and award-winning writer Ron Carlson. Introduction to the finished thesis can be found here.
Emma graduated Cum Laude from University of California Irvine in March 2015. During her time there she received the 2014 "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the department of Film & Media Studies, "Judges' Choice Award" for screenplay Suburban Incubus at the 2014 ScriptFest, and the 2015 Upper Division Writing Award for "Excellent Academic Writing in Humanities and Arts" with her research paper "A Closer Look At Sir Orfeo: Unmasking a Happy Ending." At her recent position as part of Red 5’s narrative team, she spent hundreds of hours creating and maintaining an internal wiki of story information, in addition to writing a number of dialogue scripts, audio logs, and character backgrounds to aid production. When not writing or collaborating with developers, one can find Emma playing violin or sleeping wherever she lands.
Emma graduated Cum Laude from University of California Irvine in March 2015. During her time there she received the 2014 "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the department of Film & Media Studies, "Judges' Choice Award" for screenplay Suburban Incubus at the 2014 ScriptFest, and the 2015 Upper Division Writing Award for "Excellent Academic Writing in Humanities and Arts" with her research paper "A Closer Look At Sir Orfeo: Unmasking a Happy Ending." At her recent position as part of Red 5’s narrative team, she spent hundreds of hours creating and maintaining an internal wiki of story information, in addition to writing a number of dialogue scripts, audio logs, and character backgrounds to aid production. When not writing or collaborating with developers, one can find Emma playing violin or sleeping wherever she lands.