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Richard Holeton, Director of Academic Computing Services at Stanford University, promotes thoughtful uses of educational technologies in higher education and writes fiction and nonfiction. He previously taught for 12 years in Stanford's writing program and English Department, coordinated the Computers and Writing Project, and served as Resident Fellow for a freshman dorm. Currently co-leader of the EDUCAUSE Learning Space Design Constituent Group, his scholarship includes articles, book chapters, conference talks, and college textbooks such as Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (McGraw-Hill, 1998). His fiction includes the critically-recognized hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Eastgate Systems, 2001), a variety of other electronic literature, and award-winning short stories. He's winner of a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a past California Arts Council fiction fellow. Holeton holds a BA from Stanford University and an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University.

Winner, 2012 NEA Fellowship for Fiction Writers

Thirteen Ways of Killing a Scrubjay

(Blog poetry)

Custom Orthotics Changed My Life

(Slideshow fiction)

About FIGURSKI

• Catalogue description from Eastgate Systems.
• Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin, "Second-Person Narration in Hypertext Fiction," Narrative Volume 19, Number 3, October 2011 (online requires library access).
• Alice Bell, "Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Significance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond)."
In: B. Thomas and R. Page (eds) New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).
• Alice Bell, "The Colourful Worlds of Richard Holeton's (2001) Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" in The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction.
• Astrid Ensslin, Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Continnum, 2007).
• Andrew Hinderaker, "It Has No Beginning, It Has No End: A Novel Approach Plays Havoc with Literary Convention," Stanford Magazine Nov-Dec 2002.
• Jeff Parker, "The Museum of Hyphenated Media," Electronic Book Review 01-24-2003.
• Daniel E. Schultz, "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" review, Porkopolis.org 09-27-2008.