Allison Parrish

Allison Parrish is an American poet, software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots.[1] She was named ‘Best Maker of Poetry Bots’ by The Village Voice in 2016.[2] Parrish has produced a textbook introduction to creative coding in Python, more specifically Processing.py.[3] Parrish holds a BA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Professional Studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), NYU. She has been a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department of Fordham University, 2014–2016, and an Assistant Arts Professor at the ITP since 2016.[4]

Allison Parrish
Born
Bountiful, Utah
NationalityUnited States
Known forPoetry, Software engineering, Creative coding, Game Design, Electronic literature
Notable work
Everyword, Rewordable, Articulations

Selected works
  • Everyword. 2007–2014.CS1 maint: date format (link) A conceptual poetic Twitter bot launched 2007 and later published as a book: Parrish, Allison (2015). Everyword: the book. New York: Instar Books. ISBN 978-0-9904528-5-0.
  • Rewordable. 1999–2000.CS1 maint: date format (link) With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela.[5]
  • Parrish, Allison (2018). Articulations. Denver: Counterpath. ISBN 978-1933996653.
gollark: DFPWM1a isn't real.
gollark: Old York isn't real.
gollark: Also, communism bad.
gollark: We must initiate Contingency ζ-14.
gollark: Also possibly other things?

References
  1. Fernandez, Mariana (October 12, 2017). "What it Means to Be an 'Experimental Computer Poet'". Vice.
  2. Chiel, Ethan (2016). "Best Maker of Poetry Bots: Allison Parrish". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  3. Parrish, Allison (2016). Make: getting started with Processing.py. San Francisco: Maker Media. ISBN 978-1457186837.
  4. "Allison Parrish: Assistant Professor". NYU/TISCH. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  5. D'Anastasio, Cecilia (2017). "Five family-friendly board games that aren't monopoly". Kotaku.
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