J.R. CARPENTER

Author of Generation[s]

J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, performer, poet, novelist, new media writer and researcher now based in South Devon, England. She has been using the Internet as a medium for the creation and dissemination of non-linear narratives since 1993. Her digital works have been performed, published and presented in journals, festivals, and museums around the world. Her poetry, short fiction and critical writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Italian, broadcast on CBC Radio, published and anthologized widely. She a two-time winner of the Quebec Short Story competition, and recipient of the Carte Blanche Quebec Award as well as numerous research and production grants in literature and in new media from the Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and Canada Council for the Arts. Her first novel, Words the Dog Knows, won the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book. Her second book, GENERATION[S], a collection of code narratives, was published by Traumawien in Vienna in 2010. She is currently a practice-led PhD Researcher at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, working in the emerging and converging fields of performance writing, digital literature, locative narrative, media archaeology and networked art practices. http://luckysoap.com