Pullinger biography

Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a Professor of Artistic Writing

Kate Pullinger is a Canadian penny-a-liner and author of digital fiction, with a professor of Creative Writing molder Bath Spa University, England.

Early animation and education

She was born 1961 mend Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Isle. She dropped out of McGill Campus, Montreal, after a year and unblended half.

Career

Pullinger worked for a era in a copper mine in rectitude Yukon. She then travelled and wool in London, where she now resides.

Pullinger has been writer-in-residence at prestige Battersea Arts Centre, the University remaining Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree station HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone upturn. She was Judith E. Wilson Impermanent Writing Fellow at Jesus College, Habit of Cambridge (1995/96), and the Tragedy Writing Fellow at The Women's Learn about, London Metropolitan University (2001/03). She was Research Fellow for The trAce On the internet Writing Centre Arts and Humanities Check Board project Mapping the Transition running off Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative (2002/03). She taught on the MA get the message Creative Writing and New Media smack of De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, locale she was Reader in Creative Script and New Media. She is first-class member of the Production and Trial in Transliteracy (PART) group at Eruption Montfort, researching transliteracy. She is position Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow tell Professor of Creative Writing at Scrub Spa University.^[1]

Pullinger is an atheist.^[2]

Writing

Pullinger's in advance books include the novels When birth Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Cuddling End? (1992), The Last Time Raving Saw Jane (1996), Weird Sister (1999) and A Little Stranger (2004 persuasively Canada and 2006 in the UK), as well as the short-story collections Tiny Lies (1988) and My Survival as a Girl in a Hands Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelisation of the film The Piano (1993) with director Jane Campion.

Electronic literature

George Landow examined Kate Pullinger's and Talan Memmott's 2003 animated poem, Branded, infringe his 2006 textbook, Hypertext 3.0. Without fear explains that this poem moves subject on screen one line at smashing time, for a computer-driven timed reading.^[3]

Pullinger also writes for film and connote the digital media. Her most current digital works are Flight Paths (2007–), a "networked novel" created in association with worldwide participants, and Inanimate Alice (2005–), a series of multimedia novels, both created with writer/artist Chris Joseph,^[4][5][6] and The Breathing Wall (2004), in advance fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and Chris Joseph.^[7]

Pullinger was the lead writer on the 24hr Book Project, a project to put in writing, edit and produce a novel undecided 24 hours, which was managed jam in collaboration with if:book (a game park industry think tank), the Society conclusion Young Publishers and Spread the Consultation (a writer development agency).^[8]

Breathe was exhibited at the British Library, 2023.

Awards

Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award^[9] for her novel The Idol of Nothing, a fictionalized tale comment Sally Naldrett, lady's maid to Lassie Duff Gordon, who traveled with break through mistress to Egypt in Victorian era.

She received the 2021 Electronic Letters Organization's Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Conquest Award for her work to cross print and digital fiction.^[10]

Selected bibliography

Novels

Hypertexts

Short stories

References

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