M.D. Coverley is the pen name of Marjorie C. Luesebrink, M.F.A. She has been
working in interactive, hypermedia fiction since 1995. Her full-length, CD-ROM
hypermedia novel, Califia, is forthcoming from Eastgate Systems. Recent short
fiction on the web includes: "Life in the Chocolate Mountains," "Fibonacci's
Daughter," "Pao-Lien and the Cave Drgaon, Wu," and "Endless Suburbs."
Stephanie Strickland's full-length hypertext poem, True North, published
on disk by Eastgate Systems was awarded a 1998
Salt Hill hypertext prize. True North also won the di Castagnola and
Sandeen prizes as a 1997 book from University of Notre Dame Press. Her two
other poetry books are The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil, awarded the
1993 Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press, and Give the
Body Back, University of Missouri Press.
Strickland's hypertext web poem, "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot," made in collaboration with
Janet Holmes, received About.com Poetry's Best of the Net award. As a print piece,
the Ballad won the 1999 Boston Review Prize selected by Heather McHugh. Her essays on hypertext poetics appear in issues 5, 7 and 9 of the
Electronic Book Review.
