RUTH NESTVOLD

The author of the hypertext that it’s going to analyze is Ruth Nestvold, an American Science fiction and Fantasy writer. Born in Washington and raised in Oregon, she now lives in Stuttgart, Germany, where she works in technical translation and localization.

Her first professional publication was "Latency Time," published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 2001. Since then, her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Realms of Fantasy, Sci Fiction, Strange Horizons, Futurismic, and several years’ best anthologies. In 2004, her novella "Looking Through Lace" was short-listed for the Tiptree Award and nominated for the Sturgeon Award. In 2007, the Italian translation Il linguaggio segreto won the "Premio Italia" Award for best work of science fiction or fantasy translated into Italian in 2006. She is also a regular contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Her webpage is http://www.ruthnestvold.com which you can find more information about her as well as writing, gallery and more interesting things.

James Patrick Kelly writes about Nestvold:
“Ruth Nestvold presides over what is one of the most polished of these newbie sites, which is not surprising given that she is not only a writer of stories but also of hypertext. Her site offers a generous helping of her work. She is especially astute on writing about writing, although her other essays are well worth your time, with topics ranging from gender issues to the use of Second Person in Electronic Fiction to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. But what intrigued me most was her hyperfiction, especially Joe’s Heartbeat in Budapest, of which Ruth writes: "In this imaginary conversation, you make a place for yourself in the fiction according to the responses you give. ‘You’ (the character) are a different person depending on the way ‘you’ (the reader) participate in the conversation, and your relationship to the narrator is different as well (aside from a few details common to all the narrative threads). Not only that, the narrator is a different person, depending on the kind of relationship you establish with him or her." Very cool sez Jim.”