This is a list of notable women writers of

electronic literature Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature encompassing works created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones. A work of electronic literature can be defined as "a constr ...

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* Annie Abrahams (born 1954), Dutch performance artist and writer, pioneering collective writing experiments *

Mabel Addis Mabel Addis Mergardt (21 May 1912 – 13 August 2004) was an American writer, teacher and the first female video game designer. She designed ''The Sumerian Game'', programmed by William McKay, for the IBM 7090 in 1964. It inspired similarly-styl ...

(1912–2004), American writer, teacher and game designer *

Anna Anthropy Anna Anthropy is an American video game designer, role-playing game designer, and interactive fiction author whose works include ''Mighty Jill Off'' and '' Dys4ia''. She is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Comp ...

(fl 2010), American video game designer and interactive fiction author * Kate Armstrong (fl 2000s), Canadian multimedia artist, experimental writer and curator

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Amaranth Borsuk Amaranth Borsuk (born 1981) is an American poet and educator known for her experiments with textual materiality and digital poetry. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Washington Bothell's School of Interdisciplinary Arts ...

(born 1981), American poet experimenting with digital poetry *

Mez Breeze Mez Breeze is an Australian-based artist and practitioner of net.art, working primarily with code poetry, electronic literature, mezangelle, and digital games. Born Mary-Anne Breeze, she uses a number of avatar nicknames, including Mez and Netw ...

(fl 1990s), Australian artist practicing digital poetry and electronic literature *

Amy Briggs Amy Ruth Briggs (born 1962) is an American video game implementor known for creating ''Plundered Hearts'', an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1987. Early life At one point in her youth, Briggs was a babysitter of Ron G ...

(born 1962), American video game developer involved in interactive fiction *

Jennifer Brozek Jennifer Brozek (born December 9, 1970) is an American freelance author, game design writer, editor, and small press publisher. Career Before becoming a full-time writer, Brozek was a software QA engineer working on a wide range of projects, inc ...

(born 1970), American author and game design writer * Nancy Buchanan (born 1946), American artist involved in digital performance art and fictional narrative

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* J.R. Carpenter (born 1972), Canadian-British artist and writer active in digital literature * Lynda Clark (born 1981), British author, creator of interactive fiction

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Caterina Davinio Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998. Biograph ...

(born 1957), Italian poet, novelist and new media artist *

Adriana de Barros Adriana Aleixo Pereira de Barros (born 1976) is a Portuguese and Canadian illustrator, web designer, and poet. Since 1999, de Barros has created visual poems that combine various disciplines: writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and fil ...

(born 1976), Portuguese-Canadian illustrator, creator of interactive narratives and poems *

Claire Dinsmore Claire Allan Dinsmore (born 1961) is an American jeweller, designer and new media artist. Dinsmore was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1961. She began her artistic career as a jewellery artist, moving later to net art and hypertext. Her work is in ...

(born 1961), American jeweller, designer and new media artist

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Astrid Ensslin Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German digital humanities scholar and games researcher, and Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She was previously Professor of Media and Digital Communications at the University of Alberta. Enss ...

(fl 2000s), German digital humanities scholar active in digital fiction and video games *

Tina Escaja Tina Escaja (born 1965 in Zamora, Spain), also known as Alm@ Pérez, is a Spanish-American writer, activist, feminist scholar and digital artist based in Burlington, Vermont. She is a Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages and Gender & Wome ...

(born 1965), Spanish-American writer and digital artist

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Mary Flanagan Mary Flanagan is an artist, author, educator, and designer. She pioneered the field of game research with her ideas on critical play and has written five books. She is the founding director of the research laboratory and design studio Tiltfactor ...

(fl 2000s), American game designer

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Belén Gache Belén Gache (Buenos Aires, 1960) is a Spanish-Argentinian novelist and experimental writer. Of Spanish and Gibraltarian descent, she was born in Buenos Aires. She lives in Madrid. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires where she was pro ...

(born 1960), Spanish-Argentinian novelist and experimental writer *

Samantha Gorman Samantha Gorman is an American game developer known for her combination of narrative, theatricality and gaming in VR environments, and for introducing gestural interactions in touchscreen narratives. She has won multiple awards for her work, both ...

(fl 2010), American game developer employing touchscreen narratives *

Dene Grigar Dene Grigar is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She was the President of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2013 to 2019. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime ...

(fl 2000), American multimedia artist, former president of the

Electronic Literature Organization The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a nonprofit organization "established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature". It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of ...

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Amira Hanafi Amira Hanafi (born 1979) is an American-born poet and artist who has published several works of electronic literature. She holds both American and Egyptian citizenship. '' A Dictionary of the Revolution'', a creative work she completed in 2017, docu ...

(born 1979), American/Egyptian artist and poet active in electronic literature *

N. Katherine Hayles Nancy Katherine Hayles (born December 16, 1943) is an American postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is the James B. Duke Di ...

(born 1943), American literary critic and academic active in electronic literature * Porpentine Charity Heartscape (born 1987), video game designer involving hypertext and interactive fiction *

Amy Hennig Amy Hennig (born August 19, 1964) is an American video game director and script writer, formerly for the video game company Naughty Dog. She began her work in the industry on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with her design debut on the Super ...

(born 1964), American video game developer and script writer

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Shelley Jackson Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experimental works. These include her hyperfiction ''Patchwork Girl'' (1995) and her first novel, ''Half Life'' (2006). Biography In her own words: "Shelley ...

(born 1963), American experimental writer and artist

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Alison Knowles Alison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge diffe ...

(born 1933), American installation artist using visual, aural and tactile elements

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Deena Larsen Deena Larsen (born 1964) is a new media and hypertext fiction author involved in the creative electronic writing community since the 1980s. Her work has been published in online journals such as the ''Iowa Review Web'', ''Cauldron and Net'', ''fr ...

(born 1964), American new media and hypertext author *

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(born 1971), Russian internet artist and experimental film critic * Christine Love (born 1989), Canadian novelist, interactive fiction writer and video game developer *

Marjorie Luesebrink Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink is an American writer, scholar, and teacher. Writing hypermedia fiction under the pen name M.D. Coverley, she is best known for her epic hypertext novels ''Califia'' and ''Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day''. Her ...

(born 1943), American author of hypertext fiction

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Judy Malloy Judy Malloy (born Judith Ann Powers January 9, 1942) is a poet whose works embrace the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art. Beginning with ''Uncle Roger'' in 1986, Malloy has composed works in both new media litera ...

(born 1942), poet employing hypernarrative and information art * Cathy Marshall (fl 1990s), collaborative hypertext researcher and developer *

Kathleen McConnell Kathleen McConnell is a Canadian academic and writer."Book launch for McConnell's collection of essays to be held at STU today". ''The Daily Gleaner'', January 18, 2013. A professor of English literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N ...

(fl 2000s), Canadian poet * María Mencía (fl 1999), Spanish-born media artist active in electronic literature

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Allison Parrish Allison Parrish is an American poet, software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots. She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by ''The Village Voice'' i ...

(fl 2000s), American poet, games designer and creator of poetry bots *

Judith Pintar Judith Pintar is a sociologist and author of interactive fiction. She is also a Celtic harp player and a composer of instrumental music. Professional career Interactive fiction Pintar is the author of CosmoServe, an interactive fiction (IF) th ...

(fl 1980s), sociologist, harp player and author of interactive fiction *

Jessica Pressman Jessica Pressman is a scholar who studies electronic literature including digital poetry, media studies, and experimental literature. She creates works that examine how technologies affect reading practices that are displayed through several medi ...

(fl 2010), American academic and author involved in electronic literature, digital poetry and media *

Kate Pullinger Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, England. She was born 1961 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dr ...

(born 1961), Canadian novelist and academic, author of digital fiction

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Alissa Quart Alissa Quart (born 1972) is an American nonfiction, nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet. Her nonfiction books are ''Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels'' (2013), ''Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the ...

(born 1972), American writer, poet and multimedia author

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Jean Rabe Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery. After a career as a newspaper reporter, she was employed by TSR, Inc. for several years as head of the Role Playing Game Association and editor of the ''Polyhe ...

(fl 1970s), Canadian journalist, novelist and game writer *

Melinda Rackham Melinda Rackham is an Australian artist, writer and curator. Education and early art Rackham studied sculpture and performance at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, graduating in 1989 with the Sculpture and Alumni prizes. It was here she was ...

(fl 1980s), Australian writer, digital artist and curator *

Margaret Rhee Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and ...

(fl 2011), American new media artist with an interest in digital participatory action

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Emily Short Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer. She is perhaps best known for her debut game ''Galatea'' and her use of psychologically complex non-player characters (NPCs). Short has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based game ...

(fl 2000s), American interactive fiction writer *

Lisa Smedman Lisa Smedman is a science fiction and fantasy author and journalist. Her novel ''Extinction'', set in the Forgotten Realms universe, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Smedman first became known for gaming adventure novels, and later published ...

(fl 1997), Canadian writer of science fiction and gaming adventure novels * Sarah Smith (born 1947), American author and hypertext novelist *

Stephanie Strickland Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is a poet living in New York City. She has published ten volumes of print poetry and co-authored twelve digital poems. Her files and papers are being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And ...

(born 1942), American poet, author of digital poems

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Camille Utterback Camille Utterback (born 1970 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art. One of her most well-known installations is the work ''Tex ...

(born 1970), American interactive installation artist

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Adrianne Wortzel Adrianne Wortzel (born 1941) is an American contemporary artist who utilizes robotics in her installations and performances. She has also created many online works. Early life and education Wortzel was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. She atte ...

(born 1941), American artist using robotics in her works *

Christine Wilks Christine Ann Wilks (born 1960) is a British digital writer and artist whose work in electronic literature has been published in online journals and anthologies. Her interactive ''Fitting the Pattern'' (2008) depicting memories of her mother by dra ...

(born 1960), British award-winning digital writer and artist

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Jody Zellen Jody Zellen (born 1961, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist and educator. Her practice, consisting of digital art, painting, video art, and drawing, has been showcased by way of interactive installations, public art, and curated exhibi ...

(born 1961), American digital artist and art critic

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