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Randy Adams
 Randy
Adams is a Canadian writer and visual artist. Author of the non-fiction
book Eternal Prairie, he has also published poetry and essays
in several Canadian magazines. For ten years he worked as an arts
journalist and travel writer for various publications in his home
town of Edmonton, Alberta. His photography and mixed media work
has been exhibited and collected by public galleries, museums, and
archives. Over the past 15 years, he has been awarded several grants
for both writing and photography. In 1997, after a year spent traveling
in Asia Minor, he moved to the west coast of Canada and began to
work in New Media Arts. Deciding that the Web was a perfect medium
for combining text and imagery, he immersed himself in the study
of hypertext and computer graphics. His Web art work has been featured
in several online publications. He has been an active member of
the trAce community since 1999, and was the first writer/artist
to be awarded a trAce Writer's Studio. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/
Randy Adams teaches:
Web Design Workshop
Carolyn Guertin
 Carolyn
Guertin is a poet and scholar of the new media arts, specializing
in the feminist avant-garde, at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Curator of Assemblage:
The Women's New Media Gallery and inhabiting a studio
at the trAce Online Writing Centre, her own creative and critical
works have been published internationally in print and online. She
is also a literary adviser to the Electronic Literature Organization
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/
Carolyn Guertin teaches:
Designing Web-Based Narratives
Peter Howard
 Peter
Howard is a telecommunications system design consultant and poet.
His poems have appeared in many print and on-line journals, and
he has won numerous prizes, including 2nd prize in the 2000 Daily
Telegraph/Arvon competition. He is a Literature Assessor for Eastern
Arts Board. He has run several courses on Internet Poetry and Literature.
His animated poems have appeared on several WWW sites, including
Snakeskin, Boomerang and the BBC ArtZone. A selection of his poetry
appears in the OxfordPoets 2001 anthology. His own website
at http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
contains a regularly updated list of poetry sites, hypertext poems,
dynamic poems, and animated poems using Macromedia Flash. If you
want to find out more about him, that's probably a good place to
look.
Peter Howard teaches:
Animated Poetry in Flash
N P Hunt
 N
P Hunt received her Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the
University of Virginia, where she studied under the (then) US Poet
Laureate Rita Dove and the Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Wright.
Now a Londoner, she has published poems and book reviews in both
the US and UK. She has taught creative writing, literature, and
film classes to university undergraduates since 1995. A confirmed
eclectic, she is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Imbalance
of Fire which includes a poem in the voice of an adolescent
Spanish girl working in an African leper colony, responses to classical
and 20th century artists and thinkers, translations from the 16th-century
sonneteer Pierre de Ronsard, and a series of poems inspired by a
grant-supported residency in Reykjavik.
N P Hunt teaches:
Getting Serious: How to revise your poems (next date to be advised)
and is available for 1-to-1 tutoring
Karen King
 Karen King
is the author of over eighty children's books. She writes fiction
and non-fiction - including picture books, story books, activity,
joke and puzzle books - for children from pre-school to teens. She
also writes stories, articles and comic strips for children's magazines
such as Winnie the Pooh, Rosie and Jim and Nursery Education. Her
published work includes Foul Play (Hopscotch), Cosmic
Whizz Kid (Macdonald) and The Gold Badge (Harpercollins).
Her picture book, I Don't Eat Toothpaste Anymore won the
Gold Award for Best Product (1994) and her Country Companions book,
The Birthday Surprise, won the Practical Parenting Award
(1998). Karen has recently started working for the e-publisher www.storyplus.com
and has two books published online with more in progress. She is
currently working on a series for children aged 8-10. Writing for
children is her first love, but she also writes short stories for
women's magazines. Karen holds a HNC in Media, a City & Guilds
Teaching Certificate in Adult Education and a TEFL qualification,
and is studying for a Cert. Ed. She also runs writing workshops
for adults and in schools.
Karen King teaches:
Writing Children's Fiction
Talan Memmott
 Talan
Memmott is an artist/writer from San Francisco. He is the Creative
Director and Editor-in Chief of the online literary journal BeeHive.
His work LEXIA
TO PERPLEXIA is the winner of the 2000 trAce Alt-X New Media
Writing Award. A catalog of links to published work is available
at : http://www.memmott.org/talan
Talan Memmott teaches:
Hypertext and its Double (next
start date to be advised)
Bonnie O'Neill
 Bonnie
O'Neill has a MA in Film from San Francisco State University and
has freelanced in the U.S. for over 15 years. She has written and
consulted for feature, TV, documentary and educational films and
video. Ms. O'Neill was one of the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalists
in 1998 for her screenplay, PENSIONE NOTES. She currently teaches
Writing for Film and Television, Ethnic Cultures in Film, and American
and World Cinema at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Bonnie O'Neill teaches:
The Art of Screenwriting
Kate Pullinger
 Kate
Pullinger has been working as a print-based writer since 1988. Her
books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where
Does Kissing End?, and, most recently, Weird Sister,
as well as the short story collections, My Life as a Girl in
a Men's Prison and Tiny Lies. She co-wrote the novel
of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. Kate Pullinger
also writes for film and television; her feature-length screenplay
Lily is currently in development with Box TV. She has lectured
and taught widely. In 1995/96 she was Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow
at Jesus College, Cambridge; she currently teaches undergraduates
at Randolph Macon Women's College at the University of Reading,
is an advisor for the University of Middlesex Creative Writing MA,
and is visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Guildhall
University. She is also a Research Fellow at trAce, looking at forms
of online narrative and new media writing.
http://www.katepullinger.com
Kate Pullinger is available for 1-to-1 tutoring and teaches:
Short Fiction
Susan Richardson
 Susan
Richardson is an experienced tutor of creative writing, currently
based at the University of Wales, Swansea. She has held several
writing residencies, in both the UK and Australia, and also runs
regular writing therapy workshops for people living with cancer.
Her short crime fiction has been published in Panorama, the in-flight
magazine of Ansett Airlines, and she has both been shortlisted for
a Scarlet Stiletto Award and received second prize in the Tom Howard
Crime Fiction Competition. She is also a widely-performed playwright
- her work has been seen in the UK, Australia, Canada and Finland
- and her first play, Two Of Me Now, was published by Cecil
Woolf in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series. Most recently, she has
been working for the Welsh Academi as Project Manager of 'The Great
Cardiff Poem', writing - and inspiring others to write - poems about
the city to support Cardiff's bid to be the 2008 European Capital
of Culture.
Susan Richardson teaches:
Writing Crime and Mystery Fiction
Sharon Rundle
 Sharon
Rundle is a professional writer, adult education tutor, manuscript
consultant, and writing competition judge. Her fiction and non-fiction
work has appeared in Australia and overseas in various publications,
as well as on CD, radio and on-line. She has won literary awards,
including a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Prize (1998).
Her books include Round Table Writing -a workbook for writers
and writers' groups, published Watagan Press, Australia, (1998,
1999) and Changes and Chances - the first 20 years of the
Central Coast Women's Health Centre, commissioned by the Centre
and published by the NSW (Australia) Department of Health (1997).
For the past seven years, Sharon has tutored professional and creative
writing courses for James Cook University North Queensland (Australia)
and TAFE OTEN (Australia). Her courses and workshops are popular
with Writers' Centres, Adult Education and Community Colleges and
Camp Creative. In addition to teaching writing, she teaches literacy
and English to students with a non-English speaking background.
Sharon was admitted to the degree of Writing Fellow by the Fellowship
of Australian Writers in 1993. She has a B.Ed (Adult Ed, LLN) (UTS)
with a major in Language, Literacy and Numeracy at the University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Sharon Rundle teaches:
Narrative Voice Workshop
Alan Sondheim
 Alan
Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity
(Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988),
and .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous
other chapbooks, books and articles. His video and films have been
shown internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists,
including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past several
years, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous
meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, sexuality,
and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn and Miami and teaches
at Florida International University; he lectures and publishes widely
on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the
second virtual writer-in-residence for trAce. He is currently Associate
Editor of the online magazine Beehive, and has assembled a special
topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork
has been recently screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as
Western Ontario and York Universities (Toronto). He currently works
on video with his partner Azure Carter, and soundwork in live and
recorded performance.
Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html
trAce Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/
CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write Sondheim
at sondheim@panix.com.
Alan Sondheim teaches:
Experimental Writing
Sue Thomas
 Sue
Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. She has managed
numeroussignificant web-based creative writing projects including
three virtual residencies; several creative writing collaborations
including The Noon Quilt, Home and Migrating Memories; a number
of festival online projects including three years at the Cheltenham
Festival of Literature; the creation of the trAce Online Writing
School, and the development and management of the trAce Online Centre
itself. Through trAce, she provides consultancy advice on the management
of online creative communities. 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. She has been working with the arts and technology since 1986
and has been teaching online since 1996. 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. She is currently writing a novel of virtual
life. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas
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
and elearning facilitator for the trAce Online Writing School.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
http://helenwhitehead.com
Helen Whitehead teaches:
Introduction to the Internet for
Writers
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