Course Director: Sue Thomas

Sue Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. She has been working with the arts and technology since 1986 and has been teaching online since 1996. She has managed numerous significant web-based creative writing projects including three virtual residencies; several creative writing collaborations including The Noon Quilt, Home and Migrating Memories; the creation of the trAce Online Writing School, and the development and management of the trAce Online Centre itself. She has over ten years experience of teaching writing in the UK and the US, and in 1994 she developed and validated the Master of Arts degree in Writing at The Nottingham Trent University. During that time she wrote A Handbook for Creative Writing Tutors. Her books also include the novels Correspondence(short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award) and Water, and an anthology of contemporary short stories Wild Women, 1994. Her online work includes a web-interpretation of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian; Imagining a Stone at Ensemble Logic and Choragraphy; and Lines at Lux: notes for an electronic writing. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited the Noon Quilt website and book. Most recent publications include an excerpt from Correspondence in Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture and Spivak in The Barcelona Review. Essaying Virtuality, a recently-completed non-fiction book from which Spivak is taken, aims to reconcile the virtual and the physical through their landscapes and bodies. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas

Course Administration (Student Liaison): Catherine Gillam

Catherine Gillam is the administrator for the trAce Writing School, dealing with enquiries and queries from students, and processing registrations. She graduated from Coventry University in 1999 with a BA (Hons.) in Communication, Culture and Media and is studying for an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management at Loughborough University. She likes to write short stories, poems, emails, txt msgs and even essays (but doesn't like writing about herself). Catherine is available during normal working hours Monday-Friday.

Elearning Coordinator: Helen Whitehead

Helen Whitehead is a writer and editor who has been working with online media since 1985. She explores science, family and spirituality and is particularly interested in writing at the interstices where these themes meet and intertwine. She has led collaborative webwriting projects and has taught webwriting and the Internet to a variety of groups from 6-year-olds to attendees at the Arvon Foundation residential writing courses in Yorkshire, UK. In 2000/2001 she was the recipient of a UK Year of the Artist Award to create a website Web Warp & Weft, based on stories from textile workers and the many correlations between textiles and computers from the Jacquard loom up to date. She holds an MA in Writing from The Nottingham Trent University, where she specialised in hypertext fiction on the Web. She is currently website editor and project developer for the trAce Online Writing Centre. For the School, Helen deals with tutor technical support and advises on elearning practice.
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