Simon Biggs was born in Australia, 1957, and moved to the UK in 1986. A visual and inter-disciplinary artist, he studied Electronic and Computer Music at Adelaide University 1979-81. Since 1978 Biggs has been working with computers, interactive systems and digital poetics within large-scale installations, web-based artworks and other media. He is a widely published writer and active curator. He is Research Professor at Edinburgh College of Art.

His art works have been shown in more than 36 countries and at numerous international venues, including Tate Modern, New British Library, Whitechapel Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ikon Gallery, Centre de Georges Pompidou, Academy de Kunste, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw, Musea Mimara Zagreb, Macau Arts Museum, Cameraworks San Francisco, Walker Art Center, Museo OI Rio de Janeiro and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Barbara Campbell has performed in both hemispheres, in museums, galleries, public buildings, photographs, on film, video, radio, and the internet, in silence and with words, still and moving, since 1982. She teaches at Sydney College of the Arts and is an associate artist in the Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney.

John Cayley writes digital media, and has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer. Links to his writing in networked and programmable media are at http://programmatology.shadoof.net. Three recent and ongoing projects are imposition, riverIsland, and what we will ... His last printed book of poems, adaptations and translations was Ink Bamboo (Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 (www.eliterature.org). He has taught and been associated with a number of universities in the United Kingdom, and was an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London. In the United States, he has taught or directed research at the University of California San Diego and Brown University, where, arriving in the Fall of 2007, he is now appointed as a five-year Visiting Professor of Literary Arts with a brief to teach and develop writing in digital media. His most recent work explores ambient poetics in programmable media and writing in immersive VR, with parallel theoretical interventions concerning the role of code and the temporal properties of textuality.

Maria Engberg is Associate Professor in English at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. She received her Ph.D in English from Uppsala University in 2007 for the thesis, “Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media.” In her doctoral dissertation, “Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media,” she investigates the impact of digital technology on the creation, dissemination, and reception of poetry. Engberg is the Director of the Bachelor's program Literature, Culture, and Digital Media at her home institution where she has worked since 2000 with teaching, curriculum development, administration, marketing, and web design. Her teaching experience ranges from undergraduate to graduate level courses in American literature, Postcolonial literature, digital literature and culture, and literary theory. During the academic year 2003-2004, Maria Engberg was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include American 20th and 21st century avant-garde literature, digital literature and art, visual studies, and digital cultural studies and new media theory.

Chris Funkhouser is an Associate Professor and Director of the Communication and Media program in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he teaches Cybertext, Digital Poetry, Electronic Literature, and other courses. He is a digital poet and author of the documentary study Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms, 1959-1995, LambdaMOO_Sessions (Writer's Forum, 2006), and an e-book, Selections 2.0, which was published by the Faculty of Creative Multimedia at Multimedia University (Malaysia), where he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2006.

Raine Koskimaa works as a Professor of Digital Culture and Director of the MA Programme in Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä Department of Art and Culture Studies. He has published four monographs and some forty articles, review articles, and essays dealing with digital literature, hypermedia, cyberpunk fiction, postmodernist fiction, narratology, and empirical reader-response studies. Koskimaa is editor of the Cybertext Yearbook and his doctoral thesis "Digital Literature. From Text to Hypertext and Beyond" is available at: http://www.jyu.fi/~koskimaa/thesis/

María Mencía is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University. She studied English Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid, Fine Art and History and Theory of Art at the University of the Arts London. She holds a PhD in Digital Poetics and Digital Art by the University of the Arts, London. Her practice in experimental textual and sound poetics has been exhibited as installations, videos, performances and net.art at art galleries, international conferences and festivals such as ISEA, FILE, BEAP, onedotzero, Caixaforum, ICA and TATE Modern.
Marîa has been awarded various research grants to develop her practice-led research and collaborate with various international universities such as the RMIT in Melbourne, Australia (AHRC Small Grants); The University of Sydney, Australia (TIES Grant) and Media Research Lab -New York University, NY, USA (Promising Researcher Fellowship by Kingston University).
Her work is in collections such as the First volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, K. Hayles, N. Montfort, S. Rettberg, S. Strickland eds. The Electronic Literature Organization, UCLA Department of English, Los Angeles, as well as, in various databases in research centres.

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose works of electronic literature, performance, and site-based installation have been widely and internationally presented. He is the author of experimental works for web and cd including The Jew's Daughter (Electronic Literature Collection, 2006), My Name is Captain, Captain (Eastgate Systems, 2002), and The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), a collaborative writing, archiving, and text-visualization project for which he was a recipient of the inaugural Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers' Grant in 2007.

Morrissey is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Writing, Art and Technology Studies, and Performance. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary art-making and curatorial collective, OPENPORT, and was an Associate Member of the seminal performance group Goat Island from 2004 until 2009 when the company disbanded.

Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist living in England. Her books include the novels A Little Stranger, The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, Weird Sister, and When the Monster Dies, 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. Her latest novel, The Mistress of Nothing, is currently shortlisted for a GG, a Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada's main annual literary prizes.

Kate Pullinger also writes for digital media. Her current projects include 'Lifelines' - digital stories for secondary schools, 'Inanimate Alice' - a digital novel in episodes, and 'Flight Paths: a networked novel' - a project aimed at creating a novel on and through the internet. She is Lead Writer on a game for Facebook, to be launched in 2010. See http://www.katepullinger.com/blog for urls.

Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University where, with her colleague Sue Thomas, she helps run the Transliteracy Research Group, or TRG, http://www.transliteracy.com.

Scott Rettberg is associate professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, and Implementation. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as the first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization. Rettberg is a contributor to the collaborative digital culture weblog Grand Text Auto. He is currently working on a book about contemporary electronic literature in the context of the twentieth century avant-garde, and is leading an effort to establish a European electronic literature research network.

Ana Sanchez Laws is a University Lecturer at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. Her projects focus on new media and the use of games to address contended topics in museums. Her PhD thesis deals with the contexts that allow for some stories to be told and others to remain muted in museums in Panama.

Ana holds a Mphil in Screenwriting for Multimedia from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, and a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the School of Visual and Plastic Arts, University of Panama.

Joseph Tabbi is the author of two books of literary criticism, Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota, 2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (Cornell, 1995), and co-editor of Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World-System (Alabama, 2007) and Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell, 1997). He edits ebr (www.electronicbookreview.com) and hosted the 2005 Chicago meeting of
the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. As a Director of the Electronic Literature Organization and in collaboration with the United States Library of Congress, he has set up a peer-to-peer network of emerging scholars who are currently gathering born digital
works of literature for inclusion in a developing archive at (http://eliterature.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page).

Renée Turner is an American artist and writer living in the Netherlands. In 2006 she was awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Creative Technology and received her MA in Creative Writing and New Media from De Montfort University. Since 1996 she has worked with Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting under the collective name, De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research. Their collaborative projects have showcased in Manifesta, Rhizome and Mute. Whether writing digital narratives or working collaboratively, Turner’s work often engages with feminist issues and online media ecologies. Currently she is teaching fine art and design at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) and St. Joost Art Academy (Breda).