Montfort, Nick 1972-
Montfort, Nick 1972-
PERSONAL:
Born 1972, in San Antonio, TX. Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.A., B.S., 1995; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M., 1998; Boston University, M.A., 2001; University of Pennsylvania, doctoral student, 2002—.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Philadelphia, PA. Office—Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3330 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer.
MEMBER:
Electronic Literature Organization (vice president, 2004—).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Academy of American Poets College Prize, Boston University, 2001.
WRITINGS:
(With William Gillespie) 2002: A Palindrome Story in 2002 Words (fiction), illustrated by Shelley Jackson, Spineless Books (Urbana, IL), 2002.
Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.
(Editor, with Noah Wardrip-Fruin) The New Media Reader, with compact disc, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.
(With Scott Rettberg) Implementation (fiction), privately printed, 2004.
Book and Volume (interactive fiction), Auto Mata (independent electronic label), 2005.
Contributor to Internet sites.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Review of Contemporary Fiction, summer, 2003, Trevor Dodge, review of 2002: A Palindrome Story in 2002 Words, p. 157.
Technical Communication, May, 2004, Michael Truscello, review of The New Media Reader, p. 294.