Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches the creative uses of computing and directs The Trope Tank, a laboratory and studio focused on electronic literature and computational art. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University and a PhD in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.

His books include Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, The Future, and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, Second Edition, published by MIT Press. He has also co-edited The New Media Reader, Racing the Beam, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023, and writes computer-generated poetry and other digital works.