Deena Larsen
633 Oak St. #1
Lakewood CO 80215
303-445-2584
textra@chisp.net
http://www.deenalarsen.net

Summary of qualifications

My new media writing has been published by Eastgate, Iowa Review Web, and others, and taught in universities and school systems. I develop and moderate workshops for new media writers. I work as a web designer for a large government agency, and have developed internet policy and technical standards for online documentation. Further, I design, facilitate, and moderate courses on complex decisionmaking for government agencies.

Hypertext community work

I have worked as a new media writer and have helped to build the hypertext/new media writing community for over a decade.

Electronic Literature Organization, Board of Directors (non-voting member), 2003- present

trAce, Board of Directors, 2003- present

Chat host for the Electronic Literature Organization chats, 2000- present twice monthly chats that feature leading hypertext writers to discuss issues in electronic literature. Organize, publicize, moderate, and archive.

I have proposed, designed, developed, moderated, and coordinated the first workshops for new and experienced media writers.

New media, new dimensions workshop for the Baltic Circle Hypermedia Conference, Finland, March 17-19, 200

Master Workshop at University of Technology, Queensland, February 10 -14, 2003

Hypertext Writers Workshop (at ACM Hypertext Conferences from 1996 - 2002--coordinated but did not present 2001 and 2003). Proposed, developed, organized, moderate, coordinate these workshops, which have grown from 5 participants to 50, and from a single session to four sessions.

OWEL (Online Workshop for Electronic Literature), a monthly workshop for new media works in progress. Organizing, moderating, and publicizing 2000 - 2002

Digital Literature Workshop at Digital Arts and Culture April 24-26, 2001. Organizing, moderating, publicizing.

CyberMountain, 1998, a four day workshop for writers, software developers, and researchers for new media literature. Organized, publicized, moderated, and ran.

Hypertext fiction

My works are among the first published interactive and collaborative hypertexts and web work. My new media writing has been reviewed in journals and websites, including Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, Hipertula, and Hyperizons. My works are taught in universities and school systems internationally, including Princeton, UCLA, and SUNY in the U.S. and the New South Wales Board of Education curriculum 2000 -2001 in Australia.

I'm Simply Saying in Inflect 2004

Cut to the Flesh and Going through the Signs with Jody Zellen for page space Feb 2004

The Princess Murderer with geniwate at the Iowa Review Web July 2003

Tree Woman, in Epimone 2003 (Click on English, pieces...)

Firefly, Poems that Go, 2002

Peace Roses, in The Muse Apprentice Guild, 2002
Dreams of Cobras, in Tattoo Highway, 2002
Intruder, in New River, 2001
Carving in Possibilities, frAme6, 2001
E:Electron with Geoffrey Gatza at the Blue Moon Review, 2001

The Pines at Walden Pond, in Cauldron and Net, Volume III, 2001 (under confluence)

Children's Time, in Snakeskin, 2001

Sea Whispers, an accessible version in Currents, 2001
In the Sun, Project Hope, 2001
Disappearing Rain, 2000

Bubbles, in Electronic Poetry Center, 2000

Ghost Moons, part of Akenatondocks published cd, 2000

Power Moves, in Cauldron and Net, 2000
Breathing at the Galaxy's Edges, in Planet Magazine, 1999
Mountain Rumbles, in New River, 1999

The Language of the Void, in Riding the Meridian, 1999

Spiritual Comfort, in PIF, 1999

Dream Merging, in Aileron, 1999

Sand Loves, in Eastgate's Reading Room, 1999

Ferris Wheels, in the Iowa Review Web, 1999

Stained Word Windows, in Word Circuits Gallery, 1999

Samplers, Eastgate Systems 1997

Century Cross, Eastgate Systems 1995

Marble Springs, Eastgate Systems 1993

Articles

Opening doors: Using new media techniques to aid students with developmental disabilities Fine Arts Forum, 2003

Hypertext Criticism/Writing about Hypertext with geniwate, Adrian Miles, mez, Rich Higgason, and Julianne Chatelian, ed by Susana Tosca and Jill Walker, JODI, Volume 3 Issue 3, 2003

A Quick Buzz Around the Universe of Digital Poetry, Survey responses,What You See is not What I See in Currents. for Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall 2001

Close Encounters of the Technical Kind, Riding the Meridian, 2000

Living for Hypertext. Interview, Dichtung Digital, 2000

Electronic publishing and hypertext, Just Views

Trials and tribulations of an electronic thesis, About Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Presentations and conferences

How could it go so quick? Archiving issues at Web communities and webfair: Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2004

At the crossroads: merging the text into new forms, Baltic Ring Hypermedia Conference, Jyvaskyla, Finland, March 19, 2004

The Princess Murderer: Readings in electronic literature with geniwate, CalArts, Los Angeles, California, March 1, 2004.

Hyper_text in electronic literature, UCLA Hammer Museum and ELO Reading Series, Los Angeles, California, with geniwate, February 27, 2004

Hypertext and hypermedia: intro to hypertext literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, with geniwate, Colorado February 17, 2004

Progressions in New Media: Where we've been and where we are going, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, May 18, 2003

DAC--the Idea Oddessay, trAce, 2003

Language Dancing in a Maze: Ternary Logic, Language, and Mind-States in Glide, Digital Arts and Culture May 19, 2003

'New Media: We just couldn't go there before' What is the potential for writing and art with new technologies? Guest lecture at University of Technology, Queensland, February 15, 2003

Marble Springs, exhibited at CU Art Galleries Electronic Easel, June 8 -Aug 9, 2000, Boulder, Colorado

Salon participant trAce Ink.Ubation Salon (trAce Incubation Conference), July 10, Nottingham University, England

Achieving practical development-merging skill bases (panel sessionwith David Lowe, Bill Bly, Robert Kendall, Les Carr, Peter J. Nüernberg, Lawrence J. Clark), Hypertext 2000: 262-263, May 30 - June 3, 2000, San Antonio, Texas

Providing flexibility within hypertext systems: what we've learned at HT workshops, CyberMountain, and elsewhere, Hypertext 2000: 268-269, May 30 - June 3, 2000, San Antonio, Texas

Hypertext Writing--and no, this isn't your plain old HTML, 13th Annual Pennsylvania Writers Conference: Tools for the 21st Century May 18-20, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

OtherMindedness: Hypertext on the fringe (with Stephanie Strickland and M.D. Coverly), 9th Annual Cultural Studies

Symposium: Who Counts? What Counts? and Why? March 9 - 11, 2000, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

Creative Writing, Hyperfiction, (with M.D. Coverly and Lawrence Clark) Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, February 9 - 12, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Future of storytelling, Rocky Mountain Book Festival, November 18 -20, 1999, Denver, Colorado

Hypertext Writing Possibilities, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference, October 15-17, 2000, Denver Colorado

Storytelling in New Dimensions, Digital Arts and Storytelling Writers and Designers: Crossing the Chasm (Panel with David B. Lowe, Deena Larsen, Mark Bernstein, Wendy Hall, Paolo Paolini, Catherine C. Marshall, Susana Pajares Tosca, Lawrence J. Clark: . Hypertext 1999: 197-198

September 10 1994 Guest lecturer for the Honors Program Speaking Series, Abilene Christian University.

Have given hypertext lectures and demonstrations to various organizations, including Mensa, Science Writers, and Tattered Cover Bookstore as well as at Anaconism (1997-99) and Mile Hi Con (1994-2003) Denver's Science Fiction Writers Conventions, Denver Colorado.

Education

MA English, 1992
University of Colorado, Boulder CO
GPA 3.67
Thesis: Hypertext and Hyperpossibilities (First masters thesis on hypertext, first electronic thesis at CU)

BA English/Philosophy, 1986
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
GPA 3.76, magna cum laude
Thesis: Nansense you snorsted: A logical analysis of nonsense (Best Thesis Award of 1986)

Have continued education with web design courses, software courses, and hypertext writing courses at universities, online, and from training seminars.

Experience

Bureau of Reclamation, D-8250, Denver Federal Center, Denver CO 80227-0005

Technical Writer 1991- present

As web designer, helped develop internet policy, create infrastructure for web pages, and designed sites.

Examine and develop online business practices, including websites, databases, online proposal systems, and online training, for example, the Science and Technology Program and Native American Affairs Program.

Organize, write, and edit technical and environmental compliance documents. Interview, gather primary material, and write manuals and policies. Create online, multimedia manual and training materials.

Develop and present training.

Interviewed 150 experts to determine practical methods of decisionmaking in the government. Wrote manual: How to Get Things Done in Government. Rewrote as a native hypertext training site for various audiences.

Facilitate meetings, train facilitators, and develop tailored course work for government and private organizations, including the Japanese Ministry of Construction, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Senior Executive Training Seminar, and Reclamation area offices.

Red Rocks Community College, 13300 West Sixth Ave, Lakewood, CO 80401-5398

Adjunct Faculty , 1993-1995
Designed course material for hypertext and technical writing courses.
Taught English composition courses.

University of Colorado Learning Center, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80301

Work study, 1990-1991
Tutored at-risk students and edited a book of compositions from these
students.

ABC Academy, 7-3 Honmachi, Tajimi, Japan Faculty, 1987-1990

Taught, developed curriculum, and wrote classroom texts for a wide
range of English as a Second Language courses

Cherena Bridal, Ltd. 21 Sakuradori, Nagoya, Japan Consultant, 1988-1990

Evaluated company's need for English as a Second Language courses.
Tailored course texts, taught "on the job" courses, and designed self-study materials for employees.

Have also edited hypertexts, technical articles, software user guides, and books on a free-lance basis.

Honors Or Awards

Linguarian, Fall 2000

Society of Technical Communication International Award of Merit,
Decision Process Guidebook, Bureau of Reclamation 1997

Bureau of Reclamation, 10 Awards for Exceptional Service, 5
Performance Awards, 2 Peer Awards, 6 Certificates of Appreciation

Professional Associations Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery 1993-2000
Society for Technical Communications 1997
National Association for Government Communicators 1998

Deena Larsen 633 Oak St. #1 Lakewood CO 80215 303-445-2584 textra@chisp.net http://www.deenalarsen.net
Summary of qualifications
	My new media writing has been published by Eastgate, Iowa Review Web, and others, and taught in universities and school systems. I develop and moderate workshops for new media writers. I work as a web designer for a large government agency, and have developed internet policy and technical standards for online documentation. Further, I design, facilitate, and moderate courses on complex decisionmaking for government agencies.
Hypertext community work
	I have worked as a new media writer and have helped to build the hypertext/new media writing community for over a decade. Electronic Literature Organization, Board of Directors (non-voting member), 2003- present trAce, Board of Directors, 2003- present Chat host for the Electronic Literature Organization chats, 2000- present twice monthly chats that feature leading hypertext writers to discuss issues in electronic literature. Organize, publicize, moderate, and archive. I have proposed, designed, developed, moderated, and coordinated the first workshops for new and experienced media writers. New media, new dimensions workshop for the Baltic Circle Hypermedia Conference, Finland, March 17-19, 200 Master Workshop at University of Technology, Queensland, February 10 -14, 2003 Hypertext Writers Workshop (at ACM Hypertext Conferences from 1996 - 2002--coordinated but did not present 2001 and 2003). Proposed, developed, organized, moderate, coordinate these workshops, which have grown from 5 participants to 50, and from a single session to four sessions. OWEL (Online Workshop for Electronic Literature), a monthly workshop for new media works in progress. Organizing, moderating, and publicizing 2000 - 2002 Digital Literature Workshop at Digital Arts and Culture April 24-26, 2001. Organizing, moderating, publicizing. CyberMountain, 1998, a four day workshop for writers, software developers, and researchers for new media literature. Organized, publicized, moderated, and ran.
Hypertext fiction
	My works are among the first published interactive and collaborative hypertexts and web work. My new media writing has been reviewed in journals and websites, including Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, Hipertula, and Hyperizons. My works are taught in universities and school systems internationally, including Princeton, UCLA, and SUNY in the U.S. and the New South Wales Board of Education curriculum 2000 -2001 in Australia. I'm Simply Saying in Inflect 2004 Cut to the Flesh and Going through the Signs with Jody Zellen for page space Feb 2004 The Princess Murderer with geniwate at the Iowa Review Web July 2003 Tree Woman, in Epimone 2003 (Click on English, pieces...) Firefly, Poems that Go, 2002 Peace Roses, in The Muse Apprentice Guild, 2002 Dreams of Cobras, in Tattoo Highway, 2002 Intruder, in New River, 2001 Carving in Possibilities, frAme6, 2001 E:Electron with Geoffrey Gatza at the Blue Moon Review, 2001 The Pines at Walden Pond, in Cauldron and Net, Volume III, 2001 (under confluence) Children's Time, in Snakeskin, 2001 Sea Whispers, an accessible version in Currents, 2001 In the Sun, Project Hope, 2001 Disappearing Rain, 2000 Bubbles, in Electronic Poetry Center, 2000 Ghost Moons, part of Akenatondocks published cd, 2000 Power Moves, in Cauldron and Net, 2000 Breathing at the Galaxy's Edges, in Planet Magazine, 1999 Mountain Rumbles, in New River, 1999 The Language of the Void, in Riding the Meridian, 1999 Spiritual Comfort, in PIF, 1999 Dream Merging, in Aileron, 1999 Sand Loves, in Eastgate's Reading Room, 1999 Ferris Wheels, in the Iowa Review Web, 1999 Stained Word Windows, in Word Circuits Gallery, 1999 Samplers, Eastgate Systems 1997 Century Cross, Eastgate Systems 1995 Marble Springs, Eastgate Systems 1993
Articles
	Opening doors: Using new media techniques to aid students with developmental disabilities Fine Arts Forum, 2003 Hypertext Criticism/Writing about Hypertext with geniwate, Adrian Miles, mez, Rich Higgason, and Julianne Chatelian, ed by Susana Tosca and Jill Walker, JODI, Volume 3 Issue 3, 2003 A Quick Buzz Around the Universe of Digital Poetry, Survey responses,What You See is not What I See in Currents. for Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall 2001 Close Encounters of the Technical Kind, Riding the Meridian, 2000 Living for Hypertext. Interview, Dichtung Digital, 2000 Electronic publishing and hypertext, Just Views Trials and tribulations of an electronic thesis, About Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Presentations and conferences
	How could it go so quick? Archiving issues at Web communities and webfair: Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2004 At the crossroads: merging the text into new forms, Baltic Ring Hypermedia Conference, Jyvaskyla, Finland, March 19, 2004 The Princess Murderer: Readings in electronic literature with geniwate, CalArts, Los Angeles, California, March 1, 2004. Hyper_text in electronic literature, UCLA Hammer Museum and ELO Reading Series, Los Angeles, California, with geniwate, February 27, 2004 Hypertext and hypermedia: intro to hypertext literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, with geniwate, Colorado February 17, 2004 Progressions in New Media: Where we've been and where we are going, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, May 18, 2003 DAC--the Idea Oddessay, trAce, 2003 Language Dancing in a Maze: Ternary Logic, Language, and Mind-States in Glide, Digital Arts and Culture May 19, 2003 'New Media: We just couldn't go there before' What is the potential for writing and art with new technologies? Guest lecture at University of Technology, Queensland, February 15, 2003 Marble Springs, exhibited at CU Art Galleries Electronic Easel, June 8 -Aug 9, 2000, Boulder, Colorado Salon participant trAce Ink.Ubation Salon (trAce Incubation Conference), July 10, Nottingham University, England Achieving practical development-merging skill bases (panel sessionwith David Lowe, Bill Bly, Robert Kendall, Les Carr, Peter J. Nüernberg, Lawrence J. Clark), Hypertext 2000: 262-263, May 30 - June 3, 2000, San Antonio, Texas Providing flexibility within hypertext systems: what we've learned at HT workshops, CyberMountain, and elsewhere, Hypertext 2000: 268-269, May 30 - June 3, 2000, San Antonio, Texas Hypertext Writing--and no, this isn't your plain old HTML, 13th Annual Pennsylvania Writers Conference: Tools for the 21st Century May 18-20, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania OtherMindedness: Hypertext on the fringe (with Stephanie Strickland and M.D. Coverly), 9th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium: Who Counts? What Counts? and Why? March 9 - 11, 2000, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Creative Writing, Hyperfiction, (with M.D. Coverly and Lawrence Clark) Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, February 9 - 12, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico Future of storytelling, Rocky Mountain Book Festival, November 18 -20, 1999, Denver, Colorado Hypertext Writing Possibilities, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference, October 15-17, 2000, Denver Colorado Storytelling in New Dimensions, Digital Arts and Storytelling Writers and Designers: Crossing the Chasm (Panel with David B. Lowe, Deena Larsen, Mark Bernstein, Wendy Hall, Paolo Paolini, Catherine C. Marshall, Susana Pajares Tosca, Lawrence J. Clark: . Hypertext 1999: 197-198 September 10 1994 Guest lecturer for the Honors Program Speaking Series, Abilene Christian University. Have given hypertext lectures and demonstrations to various organizations, including Mensa, Science Writers, and Tattered Cover Bookstore as well as at Anaconism (1997-99) and Mile Hi Con (1994-2003) Denver's Science Fiction Writers Conventions, Denver Colorado.
Education
	MA English, 1992 University of Colorado, Boulder CO GPA 3.67 Thesis: Hypertext and Hyperpossibilities (First masters thesis on hypertext, first electronic thesis at CU) BA English/Philosophy, 1986 University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO GPA 3.76, magna cum laude Thesis: Nansense you snorsted: A logical analysis of nonsense (Best Thesis Award of 1986) Have continued education with web design courses, software courses, and hypertext writing courses at universities, online, and from training seminars.
Experience
Bureau of Reclamation, D-8250, Denver Federal Center, Denver CO 80227-0005
	Technical Writer 1991- present As web designer, helped develop internet policy, create infrastructure for web pages, and designed sites. Examine and develop online business practices, including websites, databases, online proposal systems, and online training, for example, the Science and Technology Program and Native American Affairs Program. Organize, write, and edit technical and environmental compliance documents. Interview, gather primary material, and write manuals and policies. Create online, multimedia manual and training materials. Develop and present training. Interviewed 150 experts to determine practical methods of decisionmaking in the government. Wrote manual: How to Get Things Done in Government. Rewrote as a native hypertext training site for various audiences. Facilitate meetings, train facilitators, and develop tailored course work for government and private organizations, including the Japanese Ministry of Construction, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Senior Executive Training Seminar, and Reclamation area offices.
Red Rocks Community College, 13300 West Sixth Ave, Lakewood, CO 80401-5398
	Adjunct Faculty , 1993-1995 Designed course material for hypertext and technical writing courses. Taught English composition courses.
University of Colorado Learning Center, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80301
	Work study, 1990-1991 Tutored at-risk students and edited a book of compositions from these students.
ABC Academy, 7-3 Honmachi, Tajimi, Japan Faculty, 1987-1990
	Taught, developed curriculum, and wrote classroom texts for a wide range of English as a Second Language courses
Cherena Bridal, Ltd. 21 Sakuradori, Nagoya, Japan Consultant, 1988-1990
	Evaluated company's need for English as a Second Language courses. Tailored course texts, taught "on the job" courses, and designed self-study materials for employees.
Have also edited hypertexts, technical articles, software user guides, and books on a free-lance basis.
Honors Or Awards
	Linguarian, Fall 2000 Society of Technical Communication International Award of Merit, Decision Process Guidebook, Bureau of Reclamation 1997 Bureau of Reclamation, 10 Awards for Exceptional Service, 5 Performance Awards, 2 Peer Awards, 6 Certificates of Appreciation
Professional Associations Memberships
	Association for Computing Machinery 1993-2000 Society for Technical Communications 1997 National Association for Government Communicators 1998