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Richard Holeton (born December 28, 1952) is an American writer and higher-education administrator. His creative works are foundational in the hypertext and electronic literature genres. As a writer, his most notable work is the hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, which has been recognized as an important early work of electronic literature [1] and is included in the hypertext canon. [2]
A 20th Anniversary Edition of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, in archival and contemporary versions, was released in 2021 by Washington State University Vancouver’s Electronic Literature Lab. [3] Holeton's work is collected in The NEXT Museum, a digital preservation space.
Holeton's short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including ZYZZYVA , F(r)iction, Grain , OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, the Indiana Review , and the Mississippi Review . He also wrote the textbooks Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age and Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World.
Richard Holeton was born in Orange, New Jersey and was raised in Bellevue, Washington. [4] He earned a BA from Stanford and MA and MFA degrees from San Francisco State University. [5]
After receiving his MA in 1986, Holeton began working as a writing lecturer at San Francisco State University, Cañada College, and Stanford University. [6] He transitioned into working with technology and student computing. He worked to teach language and literature faculty methods of integrating computers into their classroom pedagogy [7] and became an administrator with Stanford University Libraries and residential computing. During this time he was a Director of the New Media Consortium and also worked with EDUCAUSE [8] to co-develop the Learning Space Rating System. [9] Following his retirement from teaching and holding administrative positions at Stanford, Holeton is Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Environments, Emeritus. [5]
In 2014, Holeton was awarded a fellowship from MacDowell, which he spent working in the Schelling studio. [10] He has also received fellowships from the Brown Foundation, California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; as well as the Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation. [8] [11]