Davin Heckman is an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Winona State University. He is managing editor of ebr and serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization. He is the author of A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day (Duke UP), and his articles on electronic literature appear in places like Culture Machine, Dichtung Digital, and ebr. His current research deals with poetics and technical estrangement in electronic literature.