Stephanie Strickland (born February 22, 1942) is a poet living in New York City. She has published ten volumes of print poetry and co-authored twelve digital poems. Her files and papers are being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And Manuscript Library at Duke University.
Life
Strickland was born in Detroit, lived for five years in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. She studied at Harvard University (A.B. 1963), Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A. 1979), and Pratt Institute (M.S. 1984).
From 1978-1990, she worked at the Sarah Lawrence College Library as Head of Access Services, Automated Services Librarian, and Women's Studies Reference Specialist. She served on the Board of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center from 1983-1995 and 1999-2005 and as editor at Slapering Hol Press from 1990-2005. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
Strickland held the 2002 McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she created, curated and produced the TechnoPoetry Festival 2002. Other invited appointments have included Distinguished Visiting Writer at Boise State University; Hugo Visiting Writer at University of Montana Missoula, Visiting Poet in Residence at Columbia College Chicago; and Visiting Poet in Residence in the MFA-PhD program at the University of Utah. Strickland presented at the &NOW Festival in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011, and frequently at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). She co-edited volume 1 of the Electronic Literature Organization's Electronic Literature Collection and the Fall 2007 issue of the Iowa Review Web, Multi-Modal Coding.
Works
Books of poetry
Works of trans-medial, electronic, and digital literature
With Ian Hatcher. First published in Nokturno. With M.D. Coverley. First exhibited at ELO2016. With Ian Hatcher. The Volta: Evening Will Come, Issue 44, August 2014. Vniverse iPad app. 2015. With Ian Hatcher. With Nick Montfort. New Binary Press, 2014. With Nick Montfort. Dear Navigator issue 1:3, Winter 2010. (Also online: how to read the work and an archived copy of its original introductory page.) John Cayley reviewed this work "is a tour de force of unambiguously literary, unambiguously computational, digital literature art." With Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan. With Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo. The Iowa Review Web, 2002. With M.D. Coverley. Cauldron & Net 3, 2000-2001.
With M.D. Coverley. Riding the Meridian volume 1 no. 2, 1999.
Resources for study of Strickland's early works include: Strickland recorded a reading from slippingglimpse during "A Toast to the Flash Generation" on December 31, 2020, sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization, as Adobe Flash ceased working in web browsers. Patricia Tomaszek has recorded a screencast of Errand Upon Which We Came that includes an interview with Strickland. Dene Grigar and her team at Washington State University Vancouver host documentation related to True North including a traversal of the hypertext, social media content, photos, the author's prologue to the traversal, and an essay by Grigar. Astrid Ensslin's work, Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature