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Deena Larsen In 1988, Deena Larsen tried
to glue poems about women in a Colorado mining town with model trains and
embroidery thread. It didn't work. A friend said, "Try HyperCard"
--and Deena has been writing hypertexts ever since. The immediate result of
that suggestion was Marble Springs , now a
collaborative hypertext where readers can add their own stories and
connections. Deena Larsen is a Denver
native. She received her BA in English and Logic from the University of
Northern Colorado and won the Best Thesis of the Year award for Nansense Ya Snorsted: A logical look at nonsense. After working
for a small software company, she found herself stranded in Japan and stayed
for a few years. She came back to Colorado to get an MA in English at the
University of Colorado and wrote one of the first MA thesis
on hypertext: Hypertext and Hyperpossibilities.
Marble Springs, her first hypertext, weaves the lives of women in
a small nineteenth century Colorado mining town into a tapestry that invites
the reader to join in. She also edited William Dickey's collection of hyperpoems, forthcoming from Eastgate.
Her most recent hypertext, Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts, explores the
relationship between structure and content in a series of geometric quilt
patterns. She currently resides in Boulder,
Colorado with her cat Sophie and other assorted living creatures. |
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