Allison Parrish is an American

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, creative coder, and

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, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary

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s. She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by ''

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'' in 2016. Parrish has produced a textbook introduction to creative coding in

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, more specifically Processing.py. Parrish holds a BA in Linguistics from

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, and a

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from the

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(ITP),

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. She has been a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department of

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, 2014–16, and an Assistant Arts Professor at the ITP since 2016.

Selected works

* A conceptual poetic Twitter bot launched 2007 and later published as a book: * With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela. *

References

External links

* Allison Parrish's website Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American poets American software engineers People from Bountiful, Utah University of California, Berkeley alumni New York University alumni Living people American video game designers Electronic literature writers {{US-writer-stub