Allison Parrish is an American poet,^[1] software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots.^[2] She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by The Village Voice in 2016.^[3] Parrish has produced a textbook introduction to creative coding in Python, more specifically Processing.py.^[4] 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, 2014–16, and an Assistant Arts Professor at the ITP since 2016.^[5]

Selected works

• Everyword. 2007–2014. 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. This bot tweeted out an alphabetized list of about 100,000 words, one every 30 minutes. Instead of a definition, the entry for that word contains the social media analytics of that tweet.^[6] @everyword was one of the first bots to have an ultimate telos, or aim, as well as a clear structure, and a metanarrative as the reactions to each word were substituted for a definition and use of the word.^[6]
• Frankenstein-Genesis, word vectorization, a machine-readable representation^[6] mixes two paragraphs from "Frankenstein" and the Bible.^[7]
• Rewordable. 1999–2000. With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela.^[8][9]
• Parrish, Allison (2018). Articulations. Denver: Counterpath. ISBN 978-1933996653. The book uses an algorithm to draw lines between similar linguistic elements of public domain poetry.^[10]

Awards

Allison Parrish won The Maverick Award from the Electronic Literature Organization in 2024.^[11][12]

References

External links

• Allison Parrish's website "Decontextualize". Retrieved September 11, 2019.

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