Deanne Achong's (Canada) practice spans digital and lens-based works, drawing, public art and installation. It draws from an exploration of history, literature, daily life and remembered stories. She is mixed-race and her work is informed by this identity. Her piece in Sea of P_o includes Trinidadian Creole.

Lúcio Agra (Brazil) graduated in Language and Literature from UFRJ and completed his Masters and Doctorate in Communication and Semiotics at the PUC-SP in Brazil. Nowadays professor at Universidade Federal do Reconcavo da Bahia, State of Bahia and also at Post-Graduate Studies in Contemporary Art at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Rio de Janeiro.

Jim Andrews (Canada) has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It's the center of his work as a poet, programmer, and net + visual + sound + computer artist and theoretician.

Kirill Azernyi (Israel/Russia) - writer, literary scholar, translator. Engaged in digital literature. Hosts a panel devoted to the phenomenology of digital arts. Participant in the International Writing Program (Iowa, 2015). Writes in English and Russian.

William Bain William Bain writes poems, short fiction and essays. Some of his work has appeared in Wild Roof Journal, DeLuge Journal, Abstract|Ext, Danse Macabre, Tusitalaproject.com, Barcelona Ink, On-Barcelona, Ferbero, Red River Review and Zone.

Gary Barwin (Canada) is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist. He is the author of 30 books including Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com

Charles Bernstein (USA) is a foundational member of Language poetry. Since the 1970s, he's published dozens of books of essays, pamphlets, translations, collaborations, and libretti. He has been widely anthologized and translated, and has appeared in over 500 magazines and periodicals. His text in Sea of P_o consists of words used five times in his book Girly Man.

Alan Bigelow (USA) has received the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature (2017); the Judge’s Prize, Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition (2017); and the Lauréat du Prix (First Prize), BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média (2011). His work, installations, and conversations concerning digital fiction and poetry have appeared many places worldwide.

Natasha Boškić (Canada/Serbia) writes poetry and short personal narratives. She experiments with a variety of media and combines analog and digital technologies, as a complex landscape for literary expression. She moved from Novi Sad, Serbia to Vancouver, Canada in 1999.

Paul Brown (UK) was inspired to work with computers after visiting the exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity in 1968 and specialized in generative art in the late 1970s. He has participated in major shows and since 2015 has continued developing his artistic practice in collaboration with his son Daniel Brown.

Angela Chang (USA/Hong Kong) enjoys tinkering with technology to craft shared experiences and bring people closer together. She researches how sensorial design can enhance cognition, collaboration, and presence. She is a member of the MIT Trope Tank, the Berkley Cultural Council, and an alumna of the MIT Media Lab.

Don Duchene: I see myself in the film business for over 50 years in a kind of lifeboat, not really on the main ship. Producing documentaries has allowed me to live a special life, a participant, but from a distance. I have a precious family (my partner and three offspring). Happily living in Nova Scotia and trying to reinvent myself almost daily. My bio is the time spent getting here.

Daniel H. Dugas (b. Montreal, Quebec) is a poet, musician, and videographer. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as festivals and literary events in Canada and internationally. His thirteenth book of poetry, 'émoji, etc.'/'emoji, etc.' was published by the Éditions Basic Bruegel Editions in 2022.

Robert Filliou was a French Fluxus artist who put forth the idea of Art's Birthday in 1963. Since his death in 1987, a loose collection of artists and artist-organizations around the world--including Peter Courtemanche and his far-flung friends--have come together to turn Art's Birthday into an annual celebration of art, life and interconnections.

tg (Canada) is a reeder, riter, wannabe librarian, and frequent loafer living on Katzie land, looking at Katzie waters.

Marco Giovenale (= differx) lives in Rome, where he works as an editor and translator. He's founder and editor of gammm.org (2006) and asemicnet.blogspot.com (2011). He's author of linear poetry, asemic writing, photography, and experimental prose pieces.

Lauri Hei is a Finnish poet, visual artist and software developer. Hei is focused on experimental, minimalist, visual and digital poetry, wordplay, video and glitch art, performances and logo art. Hei’s first book was published in 2020. His digital poetry includes generative and interactive pieces and avant-garde writing tools.

Reham Hosny is an award-winning digital creative writer and an Assistant Professor of digital literary studies at Minia University in Egypt. Her co-authored novel, Al-Barrah [The Announcer] (2019, 2021), was the first Arabic artificial intelligence novel, and was an honorable mention in 2022's Robert Coover Award.

Kedrick James is an Associate Professor of Teaching at UBC in Vancouver. He's Director of the Digital Literacy Centre, focused on arts-based research and digital innovation in language-based educational technologies and networks. He brings to his work a life lived in the literary scenes of Canada and the U.S. He's a poet by calling but has worked in many media as an artist, director and producer.

Karl Jirgens, Prof. Emeritus (U Windsor), is published globally. Jirgens founded / edited / published Rampike, (international journal; art/writing/theory) digitally archived at U Windsor. He recently guest-edited Hamilton Arts and Literary magazine. His latest book is The Razor’s Edge.

Chris Joseph is a British/Canadian writer and artist who works with electronic text, sound and image.

Adeena Karasick is a Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist of Russian Jewish heritage. She has written 12 books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as a series of parodic videopoems, such as the ironic "I Got a Crush on Osama" that was featured on Fox News and screened at film festivals. She lives and teaches in NYC.

Penn Kemp's first publication was with Coach House in 1972. She has published 30+ books of poetry and prose; seven plays and multimedia galore. She was London, Ontario’s inaugural Poet Laureate. The League of Canadian Poets’ Spoken Word Artist of 2015 and Life Member, Penn was acclaimed “a foremother of Canadian poetry”.

Lionel Kearns is a Canadian poet who originated BoG/uVr [Birth of God / uniVers], one of the earliest examples of digital art. (see Jim Andrew’s treatment on Vispo.com). After a lifetime of production, much of which is no longer available, Kearns is searching for the perfect publisher.

Joseph F. Keppler: During decades spectacular for careers in technology, education, medicine, government, cinema, finance, football, weapons + war, Joseph F. Keppler studies to know himself + realize his art. Informally he rises to review his studio practice, to rethink his critical poetics, + to place work online about language, politics, philosophy, history, mathematics, drawing + love.

Adriána Kóbor: Most of her poetry is written in English, although she creates in other languages, also — Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, etc. She has created books in collaboration with visual/digital artists. She's interested in the visual-literary fields and other experimental art-forms. Currently she lives in Italy.

Hideko Kono was born in 1911 Hamada, Shimane, Japan. After completing secondary school, she was married in 1929 and relocated to Hiroshima. She had 6 children but a son died as an infant. Her husband and second son were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. She relocated to Matsue, Shimane. She died in 1995. She wrote Tanka poetry throughout her life and published two books of Tanka poetry.

Yumie Kono is an artist based in Victoria, BC, Canada who specializes in pencil drawing and oil and tempera painting. She holds BFA from the Women's College of Fine Arts in Tokyo and has attended advanced workshops at the Banff School of fine Arts and others. She was born in Hiroshima in 1944.

Valerie Leblanc from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a pluri-­disciplinary artist and writer. Her creations travel between poetry, performance, visual and written theory. Valerie LeBlanc has been creating video poetry since the mid-1980’s and is the creator of the MediaPackBoard (MPB).

Shuen-shing Lee teaches at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. His research interests include digital literature and game studies.

Michael J. Maguire MA PhD is an Irish writer, artist, teacher, and developer. His international reputation evolved over forty years working across Stage, TV, Game Dev, Electronic literature, devices, and academia.

Chris Murray, Associate Professor of English and Head of Department: Humanities and Social Sciences, lives at an international university. She's also taught in Texas, Arizona, the Middle East, China, and war zones: Afghanistan and Iraq. Favorite fortune cookie?--Happiness is on its way to you.

Sarah Nichol is a 10 year+ resident of Vancouver Island and quite likes it there. She divides her time between her radio show (Blue Light on CFUV) and a dazzling array of hobbies.

Roberto Ncar was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1954. He has published four books: Al Borde de un Silencio, from Corsario Editions; y Arte en Vivo y en todo Color (visual poetry) from Colección Maravilla; Libro Ncarista, from Luna Bisonte, and Cuaderno Sonori I saw, from Babilonia Editions.

Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Word Vancouver. She has a Masters in Arts Education and a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of three books.

Ariel O'Sullivan is an actress, painter and performance poet who is based in Victoria, BC. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts from 1965-1967 where she studied Theatre and Directing and completed a Master Class in Classics. Ariel has a Diploma and an Associate Diploma in painting and drawing from the Victoria College of Art.

Shauna Paull has worked extensively with migrant and refugee women in areas of labour and mobility rights, poverty alleviation and legislative reform. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC in Vancouver. Her poem in Sea of P_o appears in blue gait, her 2021 second book of poetry from Mother Tongue Publishing.

Michael Paulukonis (he/him, b. 1970) is an artist-programmer in Metro-West Boston (USA). His work has been performed, exhibited, and published since the 1990s. His work is a fragmentary intrusion of opposite paradigms: digital into analog, analog into digital, your chocolate images into his peanut butter text.

Bob Phillips

• Born: 1947 Medford, Oregon. Resides in Portland Oregon.
• College: Oregon State, Southern Oregon University, Portland State University.
• Worked: with video Access, helped start Oregon Software in Portland.
• Writer, performer of poems, Modular hardware Patcher, sampler, field recorder, video using iPhone, IPads, MacBook. Audio mixing RME babyface, Teenage Engineering tx-6. Ableton Live DAW, ‘AUM’ in iOS. Synthesizer stacker, Buchla Music Easel, racks. Nerd since 70’s.

Jörg Piringer is a performer and creator of language art that uses and abuses digital technology. He lives in Vienna (Austria) and works globally in the fields of electronic music, radio art, sound and visual electronic poetry, live performance, sound installation, computer games and video art.

Stephen Roxborough Stephen Roxborough (aka roxword) is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His recent titles include Ego to Earthschool (2017), The DNA of NHL (2017), chapbook Dylan Discovered (2019), and the CD Poetica Dystopia (2023). Editor and Creative Director of NeoPoiesis Press, rox is currently finishing up books about New York, water, perenthood, and impermanence.

Visual artist Antoine Schmitt (France) creates objects, installations and performances to address the processes of movement and question their intrinsic problematics, of plastic, philosophical or social nature. As a theoretician, speaker and editor, he explores the field of programmed art.

Christina Shah lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. Her work was shortlisted for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023.

Alan Sondheim (USA) is a new media artist, musician, writer, and performer concerned with issues of virtuality and catastrophe. Most recent book: Broken Theory.

Piotr Szreniawski (Poland) is interested in blending poetry and comics and making various versions of a piece of art. As a professor of administrative sciences, he wrote various books about the theory of administration. He's a composer, sound poet, and author of many sound poetry operas.

Sarah Tremlett (UK) is a poetry filmmaker, writer, artist and arts journalist/theorist. She has an MPhil in Poetry Film, an MA in Creative Writing and a BA in Fine Art Practice. She wrote The Poetics of Poetry Film by Intellect Books. She writes across all media, between the verbal, visual and performance arts.

Jeremy Owen Turner (b. 1974 Victoria, B.C., CANADA) is an interdisciplinary artist and music composer working with technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and quantum computing. Turner earned his PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and teaches Cognitive Science there.

Fred Wah is the author of over 20 books of poetry. He was Canada's poet laureate 2011-2013. He grew up in the West Kootenays of BC, the son of a Canadian-Chinese father and a Swedish-Canadian mother. He was one of the members of Tish and has won the Governor General's award, Canada's highest honour in poetry.

David Williams uses photographic and digital tools to explore sensuality conveyed through beauty, acknowledging discomfort that accompanies this. Coming from Canada he has continued to exhibit internationally while expanding into the commercial art world, fashion/advertising, art documentation and academia. He resides in central Portugal.

Lam Wong (born 1968) is a Canadian visual artist, designer, and curator, whose art has been a substantial part of significant exhibitions in Vancouver. His works are primarily rooted in regional West Coast art history, with an emphasis on the development of painting and its avant-garde narrative.

Jaka Železnikar combines elements of poetry, visual art and programming. Did net art back in the early online days, does e-literature/poetry now.