Sue Thomas

OFFICIAL BIO
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her most recent book is the cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004). Other publications include the novels 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992) and 'Water' (1994); an edited anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994), and 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995). She has published extensively in both print and online, and has initiated numerous online writing projects including The Noon Quilt, now an iconic image of the early days of the web. She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre in 1995 where she was Artistic Director until going to De Montfort in January 2005. She is Programme Leader of the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, which she teaches with Kate Pullinger, and leads the Production and Research in Transliteracy group (PART). Her research interests include transliteracy, social media, and transdisciplinarity. She is currently writing The Wild Surmise, a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world. http://www.suethomas.net/

PERSONAL STUFF
Sue Thomas was born in 1951 in Rearsby, a small village just outside the city of Leicester, UK. Her parents were both of Dutch nationality and during her growing up they moved around England a great deal while her father pursued various careers from Rank Xerox photocopier salesman to life underwriter. Sue herself pursued a varied career, including fine art student, accounts clerk, bookseller, and self-employed machine-knitter, before entering academia as a mature student in 1985, discovering computers that same year, and publishing her first novel in 1992. She returned to live in Leicester in 2004 when she accepted the post of Research Professor at DMU. She is passionate about the seaside; wandering around California and, of course, wandering around cyberspace. She spends far too many hours messing about with social media.

Twitter: suethomas
Homepage: http://www.suethomas.net/
The Wild Surmise: nature and cyberspace http://www.thewildsurmise.com/
Hello World: travels in virtuality http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/helloworld/
Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com
Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) http://www.transliteracy.com

Contact
Professor Sue Thomas
Clephan 1.01d
Faculty of Humanities
De Montfort University
The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH UK
+44(0)116 207 8266
sue.thomas @ dmu.ac.uk