Cristy Burne: Choosing courage and creativity

Need a boost of energy, creativity and courage? Let’s go! Atom-smashing journalist turned award-winning children’s author Cristy Burne blends science and story to inspire change.

Cristy Burne: Experience the adventure

Cristy Burne, AKA the Creativity Queen, is an award-winning internationally published Australian children’s author and STEM journalist working on the intersection of story, science, technology and creativity.

Whether she’s working from the stage, through a book or in a workshop, Cristy’s message of courageous learning and creative thinking is experiential, exciting, engaging, inspiring and FUN.

A scientist, journalist and speaker for more than 20 years, Cristy uses her platform as a science writer and children’s author to empower audiences of all ages to think critically and creatively.

From imagination to innovation

How do we live more creatively and courageously? How can we build the muscles to imagine, innovate, find fun and choose joy?

Cristy believes (and science proves) that our children are the future.

Childish is a compliment. It matters what stories we tell children. It matters what stories we tell ourselves. And it matters that we’re brave enough to create our own stories.

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Science. Creativity. Adventure.

Cristy’s career covers six countries, three degrees (biotechnology, science communication, and a Masters in Professional Communication), and jobs that include patent translating, magazine editing, journalism at CERN (home of the Large Hadron Collider!), exploding things at Questacon (as part of a science circus!), and resource recovery in the back of a ute (as a bin collector!).

Cristy has also bungee-jumped, sky-dived, back-packed and (accidentally) exploded sewage on her neighbour.

Cristy’s books have been published internationally and recognised in the WA Premier’s Book Awards, the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year, the Wilderness Society’s Environment Prize, the WA Young Reader’s Book Awards, and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards.