Jumpin' at the Diner was conceived and created by
Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink with Jennifer Ley
***
Commentary by: Jay Bolter and Stephanie Strickland
***
animated jukebox, disk, dancing .gifs from Chuck Poyner at Ozarksoft.com.
***
midi music rendition of "The Heart of Rock and Roll is Still Beating" by Huey Lewis and the News from MidiFarm.
writes hypermedia fiction as M.D. Coverley. Her full-length novel, Califia (Eastgate Systems 2000), is available on CD-ROM <http://www.eastgate.com>.
Her web short stories and poetry have appeared in Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron and Net, Salt Hill, New River, Enterzone, and Aileron. Forthcoming stories include "Default Lives" collaborative poetry with Stephanie Strickland, "Errand on Which We Came," both at Cauldron and Net, Tide-Land at Beehive, and "The Personalization of Complexity" at frAme.
Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Transcriptions Series at UC Santa Barbara, at the Digital Arts Center at UCLA, on-line at trAce (Nottingham University, UK), the Technology Platforms for the 21st Century at Brown University, Blast 5 (Alt X), Room Without Walls, and Digital Arts and Culture 2000.
She curated a collection of women writing on the web with Carolyn Guertin, "The Progressive Dinner Party" (Riding the Meridian, Spring 2000). Her non-fiction work has been published extensively both online and in print.
She is founding member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Association. Marjorie Luesebrink has an MFA from UC Irvine, lives in Newport Beach, CA, and teaches writing at Irvine Valley College.
Founder of the internet literary magazine Riding the Meridian
(http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/) and the award winning hypertext poetry site The
Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, much of Jennifer Ley's newest work is in the field
of hypertext and hypermedia. Examples can be found on the web at SUNY Buffalo's Electronic
Poetry Center, in the web journals Iowa Review Web, Cauldron & Net, frAme4,
The Animist, Snakeskin, and Conspire, and in the trAce
anthology: My Millennium. Ley's web works have been exhibited on the NJN/PBS Series, State
of the Arts, at Digital Arts and Culture '99, SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery, the Ink.ubation
Salon sponsored by trAce online writing community, as well as at digital
conferences planned this year in South Africa and Eastern Europe.
A 1998 Pushcart nominee for her text poetry, much of Ley's earlier 'text' work is
available online in a wide variety of electronic literary magazines. A limited edition
paper version of her web work "The Birth of Detachment" has been published by
PaperBrain Press. She is a founding member of the Internet Literary Editor's Fellowship --
ILEF -- http://www.ilef.org and a member of the Literary Advisory Committee for the
Electronic Literature Organization.