notes on contributors



Giselle Beiguelman	Giselle Beiguelman, PhD in History, is a multimedia essayist and web-artist who lives in São Paulo, Brazil, where she was born (1962). Professor at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP and a former fellow of the VITAE Foundation, she was member of the 10th ISEA International Program Committee and has been presenting her web works in exhibits, festivals and scientific events devoted to new media art, like Net_Condition (ZKM, 1999), P0es1s (Munich/Kassel, 2000) and Netáforas 3.0 (Mecad, Barcelone, 2001) among others. Since 1998 she runs desvirtual.com, an editorial studio where are based her personal projects, like The Book after the Book, <Content = No Cache> and wopart. For more information, please visit www.desvirtual.com
c. allan dinsmore	claire dinsmore is the creator of the award winning site Another Form of Intervention and the editor and designer of cauldron & net: an electronic journal of the arts & new media. She has completed MFA studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art and holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design/The New School for Social Research. Ms. Dinsmore has exhibited worldwide and has been published as an artist, critic, essayist and poet. Her work is in the permanent collections of the American Craft Museum, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Montreal Museum of Art, and The Dursky Museum, as well as within numerous private collections. In 1999 she was selected as a Pushcart Prize nominee for her text poetry. Presently she is president of Studio Cleo where she works as a new media artist and indulges herself in such anachronistic pursuits as bookmaking and metalwork. Her work has been published and/or exhibited online at The Museum of Instant Images, The International Post Dogmatist Quarterly, Artsite 2000, Artpool [Hungary], A Room Without Walls, POTEPOETZINEFOURTEEN, Beehive, Riding the Meridian, The Nepenth Journal, The Progressive Dinner Party, Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery, The Iowa Review Web, the Eighth New York Digital Salon, frAme5, and in the Rhizome Artbase. She is a member of the Electronic Literature Organization and The Internet Literary Editor's Fellowship.
geniwate	geniwate has been involved in electronic literature for about four years. Before that she was a performance poet and a print poet. Her work 'rice' was co-winner of the 1998 trAce/Alt-x International Hypertext Competition and her work 'Nepabunna' was shortlisted for the 2001 Electronic Literature Organisation's Poetry Award. Geni's recent work has focussed on the metaphysics of science and technology. Her work in progress '6 Calabi-Yau poems' takes as its starting point the concept of ultra-microscopic 6 dimensional spaces which are integral to string theory. It is postulated that these spaces create the environment in which the 'strings' can flourish, and the resulting interactions create the universe. Geni wonders whether it is text, formulae and theories rather than strings which are at the core of the universe. In this work it is possible to create your own Calabi-Yau poem. You can send a screen grab of the poem to geni and she will add it to the site (see the 'experience' section). Geni lives in Australia, where she and others are establishing an Australian elit association called 'Divergence'. She is also on the Board of ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Tecnology). Email: geniwate@ozemail.com.au.
Adrienne Eisen	What Fits written by Adrienne Eisen; first published by Eastgate Systems Adrienne Eisen writes at the intersection of print and digital media. Ms. Eisen's most recent print novel is "Making Scenes" (Alt-X Press, 2000). Portions of this novel were nominated for a Henfield Award, and excerpts have been published in many literary journals and anthologies. Adrienne Eisen is the only hypertext winner of the New Media Magazine Invision Award. And her hypertext, "Six Sex Scenes" appears on university syllabi all over the world. Eastgate Systems published her most recent hypertext, "What Fits." Adrienne Eisen is a frequent speaker and panelist at events such PEN/West and Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies. She taught creative writing at Boston University.
Diane Greco	Diane Greco's fiction and essays have appeared in many places in print and on the Web, including Pif Magazine, Art New England, The Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Beehive, The Saint Ann's Review, and Poets & Writers Magazine. Since 1994, she has worked as an editor at Eastgate Systems, the premier hypertext publisher in the US. She lives in Brooklyn, where she's presently finishing a novel in hypermedia, The Country Between Us.
Shelley Jackson / Pamela Jackson	Shelley Jackson is the author of the acclaimed hypertext novel Patchwork Girl. Her fiction has appeared in numerous print and electronic journals, including Grand Street, Kenyon Review, Fence and Conjunctions. She has also written and illustrated several books for children. Her story collection, The Melancholy Of Anatomy, will be published by Anchor in spring 2002. Pamela Jackson is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in rhetoric from U. C. Berkeley. Portions of her doctoral dissertation, The World Philip K. Dick Made, can be found on her website.
Deena Larsen / Geoffrey Gatza	An electronic media junkie for over a decade, Deena Larsen has triedeverything to relieve the cravings for new forms of literature and the DT shakes of going out of the lines. An ardent backslider, she has led treatment programs such as hypertext writing workshops and bimonthly ElectronicLiterature chats. Unfortunately, these have only fueled her uncontrollable desires for complex structures of meaning. She sought her vices in the Woodstock of e-poetry conferences, where addictive e-thoughts flowed freely. There in the late night coffee dens, she met Geoffrey Gatza and convinced him that this trip would be an easy one. She promised to reform. No complexity, no hidden meanings -- just a smooth flashy ride. She lied. For three years, out of key with his time he strove to resuscitate the dead art of poetry; to maintain "The sublime" in the old sense. Wrong from the start-Geoffrey Gatza trusted her dark junky eyes. The age demanded an image and she offered a blazing electronic diadem. Deena Larsen offered a journey towards structure. A seemingly innocent excursion from the usual drug hazed nights of a jazz lit town. Being an orthodox non-Euclidian, her complexes struck powers chords within his ideals of free and moments landed on top of other moments which became itself a moment - becoming expressed as one moment - on top of another co-existing as and as-not - not in a jumble, per se, but as "e". Geoffrey Gatza is also the author of Cool Whip: a documentary poem of the supermarket. Check out BlazeVOX2k1.
Jennifer Ley	Founder of the internet literary arts magazine Riding the Meridian and the award winning hypertext poetry site The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Jennifer Ley has been using the computer to create bridges between literature, activism and art since the mid-eighties. Her works have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, Digital Arts and Culture '99, Wednesdays at 4 readings series at SUNY-Buffalo, SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery, the Ink.ubation Salon curated by Mark Amerika, INFOS 2000, and E-Poetry 2001. Her hypermedia work can be found on the Web at the Electronic Poetry Center, in the web journals BeeHive, Iowa Review Web, cauldron & net, frAme4, The Animist, Snakeskin, and Conspire, and in the trAce anthology, My Millennium. A 1998 Pushcart nominee for her text poetry, Ley's earlier work has been published in a variety of print and web publications and anthologies. A print adaptation of her web work, The Birth of Detachment, is available from PaperBrainPress. Ley is a member of the Literary Advisory Committee for the Electronic Literature Organization and a founding member of ILEF -- the Internet Literary Editors Fellowship. She is currently participating in an NEH Seminar led by N. Katherine Hayles -- Literature in Transition: The Impact of Technology.
Judy Malloy	Emerging from a background of experimental artists books, Judy Malloy has been writing hypernarratives in 1986 when she began writing Uncle Roger (a narrative of sex and politics in Silicon Valley) on Arts Com Electronic Network on the WELL. Her hyperfictions include: its name is Penelope (Narrabase Press, 1990; Eastgate Systems, 1993) Forward Anywhere (with Cathy Marshall; Eastgate Systems, 1996) l0ve0ne (Eastgate Web Workshop) -- http://www.eastgate.com/malloy/ The Roar of Destiny Emanated From the Refrigerator -- http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/control.html and Dorothy Abrona McCrae -- http//www.artswire.org/jmalloy/dorothy/thewords.html -- a narrative purportedly by a legendary 81 year old painter. Judy Malloy has been an artist in residence at Xerox PARC; an Associate Editor of Leonardo; Contributing Writer to MicroTimes; and has taught web design at the San Francisco Art Institute; She is the editor of Women in New Media (forthcoming from MIT Press) and is currently the Editor of the online arts ezine, Arts Wire Current.
Stephanie Strickland / M.D. Coverley	[Errand Upon Which We Came was originally published in cauldron & net, v.3, Spring 2001] Stephanie Strickland's manuscript, "V," won the 2000 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and is forthcoming from Penguin in 2002, in print, with a hypertext component on the Web. Her "Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot" won the 1999 _Boston Review_ prize, and its Web version was chosen for an About.com Best of the Net award. She is the author of the award-winning Eastgate hypertext _True North_ (1998), as well as numerous essays about digital poetics, both online in _ebr_ , in _American Letters & Commentary_, and as part of a collection from MIT Press. She has collaborated with M.D. Coverley on two Web poems, "To Be Here as Stone Is" and "Errand Upon Which We Came." She is also the author of award-winning print books of poetry, including The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil_ (1993) and _True North_ (1997). She will be the McEver Chair in Writing at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA) writes electronic hypermedia fiction. Her interest in hypertext fiction and web hypermedia dates to 1995, when she published "The Virtual Mausoleum," one of the early web narratives. Her full-length novel, Califia, is available on CD-ROM from Eastgate Systems. Califia is an epic hypermedia saga with text, sound, graphics, and motion. The three narrators tell of generations of Californians in search of the elusive paradise. A collection of Web hypermedia short stories, Fingerprints on Digital Glass will appear in 2001. Coverley's web short stories and essays have appeared in Iowa Review Web, BeeHive, Cauldron and Net, Alt-X, Riding the Meridian, Salt Hill, New River, Bunk, PoemsThatGo, Enterzone, Aileron, Blast 5 (Alt X Publications), Room Without Walls, and frAme. She has received an NEH Grant for electronic literature, and her work has been featured at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Transcriptions Series at UCSB, the Digital Arts Center at UCLA, and Technology Platforms for the 21st Century at Brown University. She curated a collection of women writing on the web with Carolyn Guertin, "The Progressive Dinner Party" (Riding the Meridian, Spring 2000) and a survey of men in web hypermedia, "Jumpin' at the Diner" with Jennifer Ley in the Winter 2001 issue of Riding the Meridian. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink lives in Newport Beach, CA, has two sons and two daughters-in-law, and teaches writing at Irvine Valley College.
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