Nick Montfort is an author of interactive fiction, including Winchester's

Nightmare, and Ad Verbum, and he wrote the first academic book about the form, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Nick collaborated with

William Gillespie to write The Ed Report, an online novel and hoax, and 2002, a 2002-word story in the form of a palindrome. With Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick is co-editor of

the book and CD The New Media Reader and co-author of the pamphlet Acid-Free Bits. He holds masters degrees from Boston University (creative writing, poetry) and MIT (media arts and sciences). He is currently a doctoral candidate in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. His site: http://nickm.com/.

Scott Rettberg is an Assistant Professor of New Media Studies in the Literature program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He is the coauthor, with William Gillespie and Dirk Stratton, of The Unknown, a hypertext novel, the co-winner of the 1999 trAce/Alt-X Hypertext competition, coauthor of The Unknown, an Anthology, author of the short hypertext "The Meddlesome Passenger", and the email novel Kind of Blue. Rettberg is the cofounder of the Electronic Literature Organization, and serves on its board of directors. His site: http://caxton.stockton.edu/rettberg.