Nick Montfort, professor of digital media, uses computation to develop literary art. His work includes more than ten computer-generated print books (from seven presses), the collaborations
The Deletionist and
Sea and Spar Between, and
Memory Slam: Batch-Era Text Generation. His most recent book of poetry is human-authored but written under constraint:
All the Way for the Win (Penteract Press, 2025) consists entirely of three-letter words. Among Montfort’s MIT Press books are
The Future and two co-edited volumes,
The New Media Reader and
Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. He’s also principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. He directs a lab/studio, The Trope Tank. For more, see Nick’s site,
nickm.com.
