Riding the Meridian's Women and Technology issue (release
date: February 15, 2000) features a roundtable discussion with professors
and theorists N. Katherine Hayles and Marjorie Perloff, Eastgate
aquisitions editor Diane Greco, and hypertext writers Shelley Jackson
and Linda Carroli. The new issue also contains a Progressive Dinner
Party showcasing 39 women who create hypertext web work, created
by contributing editors Carolyn Guertin and Marjorie Luesebrink
[with commentary by Hayles and Talan Memmott], and new work by Miriam
Axel-Lute, Michelle Cameron, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Ruth Daigon,
Claire Dinsmore, Johanna Drucker, Claudia Grinnell, Diane Gromala,
Christine Kennedy, Adriene Jenik, Tina LaPorta, Mez, Jessy Randall,
Neca Stoller, Sue Thomas and Teresa White. Guertin also examines
the underpinings of the upcoming Eastgate release Califia,
by M.D. Coverley, while CK Tower (editor of Conspire, which
will feature a concurrent issue dedicated to women who write) interviews
Daniela Gioseffi, and Tabetha Dunn, geniwate and Deena Larsen talk
to us about tech. Also, Judy Malloy answers questions about her
work and her ongoing online forum, Gender and Identity in New Media.
Jennifer Ley
Founder of the hypertext poetry site The Astrophysicist's
Tango Partner Speaks and the internet literary magazine Riding
the Meridian, much of Jennifer Ley's newest literary work
is in the field of hypertext. Examples can be found on the web
at the trAce anthology: My Millennium, in Cauldron and
Net, in the upcoming issue of frAme, and in past issues
of The Animist, Snakeskin and Conspire. Her
newest work, the Body Politic, was shown at Digital Arts
and Culture '99, sponsored by Georgia Tech and the University
of Bergen - Norway. A 1998 Pushcart nominee, some of the literary
magazines and anthologies that have published Ms. Ley's poetry
include: Agnieszka's Dowry, Terrain, Salt River
Review, Will Work for Peace, Octavo, 2River
View, Recursive Angel, Silhouettes in the Electric
Sky and Wise Woman's Web, among many others. Her work
is anthologized at Poetry Cafe.
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