Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort is associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he and Ian Bogost wrote Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). His book of poems Riddle & Bind appeared on Spineless Books. He is currently at work on his interactive fiction system, Curveship, and on a collaborative project with nine others to write a single-voice academic book, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, about the one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program that is the book's title.