The Authors
To Be
Here as Stone Is is a collaborative Web work designed and implemented
by M.D. Coverley and Stephanie Strickland. All rights reserved. Copyright 1999.
M.D. Coverley (Marjorie
Luesebrink) is a hypertext fiction author. Her CD-ROM epic, CALIFIA, is
forthcoming from Eastgate Systems. Current Web pieces include The Lacemaker, Life in the Chocolate
Mountains, The Magic Millennial CyberCarpet, and Fibonacci's
Daughter.
Stephanie Strickland is a poet and hypertext author. Her hypertext poem, TRUE NORTH, was published on disk by
Eastgate Systems in 1997. Current Web pieces include The Ballad of Sand and
Harry Soot and critical essays in ebr.
TRUE NORTH was published in print by the University of Notre Dame Press in
1997 as the Sandeen Prize volume and was also awarded the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize
from the Poetry Society of America. Her other poetry in print includes THE RED
VIRGIN: A POEM OF SIMONE WEIL and GIVE THE BODY BACK.
The plaintext of the poem, "To Be Here as Stone Is," appears in both the print
and hypertext versions of TRUE NORTH, copyright 1997 Stephanie Strickland.
The authors would like to credit:
The Dufada New Age Irish Music Site for the midi clips.
Fabio Ciucci and Andrea Fasce for the Java applets.