Christine Wilks

Wilks has spent many years with the electronic learning company, Make It Happen Now, where since 2011 she has served as creative director. From 2007, she was a key member of R3M1XW0RX, a remixing project for digital media which was developed until 2012.

Underbelly won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 and the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition 2011.

Christine Ann Wilks (born 1960) is a British digital writer and artist whose work in electronic literature has been published in online journals and anthologies. Her interactive Fitting the Pattern (2008) depicting memories of her mother by drawing on dressmaking tools is considered to be a "born digital" work. Underbelly, presenting a digital account of women working in the pits of northern England, won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 as well as the 2010/11 MaMSIE Digital Media Prize. In 2021, Wilks earned a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University with a thesis titled "Stiched Up in The Conversengine: Using Expressive Processing and Multimodal Languages to Create a Character-Driven Interactive Digital Narrative".

Born in June 1960, as of mid-2022, Christine Wilks is based in Leeds in the north of England. After graduating in fine art from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in 1982, Wilks earned a masters degree in Fine Arts from the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992. In 2008, she received a second master's degree in creative writing and new media from De Montfort University. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in digital writing from Bath Spa University in 2021.