Allison Parrish

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

Selected works

• Everyword. 2007–2014.CS1 maint: date format (link) 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.
• Rewordable. 1999–2000.CS1 maint: date format (link) With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela.
• Parrish, Allison (2018). Articulations. Denver: Counterpath. ISBN 978-1933996653.