Deena Larsen

Deena Larsen (born 1964) is a new media, hypertext author, known for ground-breaking work in creating structural patterns in hypermedia literature. Larsen has been working with electronic literature since the 1980s and is considered one of the pioneer artists in the field. Her work has been published in online journals such as the Iowa Review Web, Cauldron and Net, frAme, inFLECT, and Blue Moon Review. Since May 2007, the Deena Larsen Collection of early electronic literature has been housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Deena Larsen received her BA in English/Philosophy from the University of Northern Colorado in 1986. Her undergraduate thesis, "Nansense Ya Snorsted: A logical look at nonsense" received the university's 1986 Best Thesis Award. After spending time in San Francisco and Japan, she returned to Colorado and earned her MA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. She currently works at the Bureau of Reclamation, where she developed and wrote the Decision Process Guidebook: How to Succeed in Government.

She has led many writers workshops (online, at conferences, and at universities) to encourage exploration into the possibilities of hypertext. She also hosted the Electronic Literature Organization chats from 2000-2005 and taught at Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, Colorado.

Deena Larsen has MHE, and tells her story. See [1].

Deena Larsen's first work, Marble Springs, Eastgate Systems, 1993 was one of the first interactive hypertext poetry collections. The work explored the lives of women in a Colorado mountain town between 1853 and 1935 in the tradition of The Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg Ohio. Written in Hypercard, Marble Springs presaged web navigational structures and icons. It provides margins for notes, biographical notations, and blank "pages" for readers to add their own characters into the town.

Her second work, Samplers, Eastgate Systems, 1997, is a series of short stories done in Storyspace, and showcased the unique capabilities of Storyspace. For example, Storyspace allows links to have names, and Larsen used this capability to comment on, and undercut, the story.

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