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Gavin Stewart  is
a poet, new media artist, academic and Artistic Project
Manager at trAce. He is a biology graduate, a former derivatives
trader and an avid traveller who draws inspiration from
a variety of sources. His web-based work, ‘this little
world’, tells the story of a 2,000 mile walk around
England he undertook in the Summer 1996. Gavin was formerly
a Visiting Lecturer and Research Student studying for a
PhD at the University of Luton, UK. His area of research
is the addressivity of computer-mediated textuality. As
part of his research Gavin has designed a number of web-based
texts including choice/cuts , poiema, Ontology & Slippage
(with Mark Goodwin). He has also authored a number of print
works, including ‘Partnerships between Science and
Industry’ (ISBN 0-7123-0849-0), which was published
by the British Library, 1999. His collection of poetry,
Biology Lessons (ISBN 1 903031 008), won the 1999 Poetry
Monthly booklet competition. His latest collection Sounding
Out (ISBN 1 903031-03-6) was published by Poetry Monthly,
2001. http://www.gavinstewart.net
Email
Dr Lynne Hapgood,
Head of the English Division at Nottingham Trent University.
Her research interests include late 19th century social
problem novels, especially the discourses of poverty; the
socialist novel, issues of the relationship between history
and fiction; Early 20th century fiction, especially the
development of the English tradition and its relationship
with modernism and the cosmopolitan; the suburbs in fiction;
Other interests include the role of late 19th century women
activists; the public and the private, and women's voice
in politics. Contact via trace@ntu.ac.uk
 Helen Whitehead
is Manager of Education & Training. She is a writer
and editor who has been working with online media since
1985, with interests which include scientific databases,
hyperfiction and elearning. She has led collaborative Web
writing projects and has taught Web writing and the Internet
to a variety of groups including online learners, schoolchildren,
teachers and attendees at the Arvon Foundation residential
writing courses in Yorkshire, UK. She holds an MA in Writing
from The Nottingham Trent University,
>where she specialised in hypertext fiction on the Web.
Her project Web
Warp & Weft, an exploration of the resonances between
the making of textiles and the making of the Web, was commissioned
for the Year of the Artist, 2000-2001. She is manager of
Kids
on the Net and the trAce Online Writing School.
http://www.HelenWhitehead.com
 Randy
Adams
Randy Adams is a Canadian writer and visual
artist and Associate Editor at trAce. 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/
Karmela Economopoulou is
a part-time administrator for the trAce Online Writing Centre
and School. She has studied English Language and Literature
at Empire State College in Greece and decided to come to
England for a MA in Writing at NTU. Currently, she is doing
a PhD in Creative Writing at NTU. She is interested in all
forms of writing with a particular focus on screenwriting
and playwriting. Email
Collaborators at DMU
Sue
Thomas is currently Professor of New Media at De
Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She was the founder
and Artistic Director of trAce for ten years. Her books
include the novel Correspondence, short-listed for the Arthur
C Clarke Award 1992; Water , 1994, and an anthology of contemporary
short stories Wild Women, 1994. In 1994 she developed the MA
in Writing at The Nottingham Trent University and during
that time she also wrote A Handbook for Creative Writing
Tutors. 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. In 2002-3 she managed Mapping
the Transition from Page to Screen. a research project
looking at ways in which writers use the internet. A critique
and excerpt of Correspondence appeared in Reload:
Rethinking Women and Cyberculture (MIT). Her book Hello
World: travels in virtuality was published by Raw Nerve
in March 2004.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/
 Simon
Mills worked in the commercial website development
sector for several years before managing trAce's Web Studio
and consulting services. He has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy
from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Writing and
MSc in Multimedia from The Nottingham Trent University.
He is Senior Lecturer in New Media at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK. Email
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