On the back cover and internet, it stateS that Millie Niss (1973-2009) was a poet and web artist whose work was widely published on the web and in print, including the Electronic Literature Collection, SCOPE 2006, cover art for the International Journal on Multicultural Societies, Hyperrhizz, and Museum of the Essential and Beyond, dvblog, and logolalia. Her website: http://www.sporkworld.org and blog: http://sporkworld.tumblr.com. Several images first appeared in different form in Word Circuits (images 2-3) Iowa Review on the Web (image 4) and Dudley House, Harvard University (image 11). Martha Deed constructed this collection from works originally designed for exhibit in galleries or as interactive web.art. Martha says for Millie: "For Millie Niss, all relationships were political, and one's own life was also intimately connected to ever larger political and cultural circles. In the context of growing up with linguistic and family roots in France and New York State (New York City, rural western New York), much of Millie's work draws from sources outside of US politics and literature. In her own writing, the French Oulipo movement with its constraints was a major influence and was often linked to her mathematics background. Most of her work cuts across at least two cultures. "The 16 images collected here represent Millie's range of interests from politics and literature to oulipo and hypertext to autobiographical reflection. The pieces, taken together, represent a self-portrait of Millie as a poet, web artist, and traveler. There are references here to Paul Theroux, to Tunisa during Ramadan, and to French culture of the early 1990s, experienced by Millie as a teenager studying for the Bac -- along with the poetry games and the indignation and humor that marked much of her published work." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.