for a fresh approach. It appeared that many years of not fitting in had drawn her towards creative and academic success. Her most recent book is Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age. Her previous book, Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace came out in 2013. The non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality was published in 2004. Her first novel Correspondence was short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the European Science Fiction Award in 1992 and the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1993. She has published extensively in both print and online, and has initiated numerous online writing projects. Career In 1988, aged 37, she graduated from Nottingham Trent University and began writing her first novel, Correspondence. As it progressed, she pursued a freelance life, teaching creative writing in numerous different settings including her former university where she set up an MA in Writing which opened in 1994. In 1995 She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre, an early global online community based at Nottingham Trent University. From 1995 to 2005, trAce hosted conferences, online forums, online writing courses, and 34 works of electronic literature in 6 issues of its journal, frAme. which is now restored at the Washington State University's NeXt Museum. In 1997, she was awarded a substantial Arts Council Grant to set up the trAce Online Writing Community, a ground-breaking internet organisation connecting writers around the world. In 2003 she spent a month at the University of California Los Angeles researching new media writing practices for trAce. The organisation ran for ten years, funded by numerous supporters including East Midlands Arts, The British Council, NESTA, the Royal Literary Fund, and many others. In 2005 she moved to De Montfort University to take up the position of Professor of New Media in the newly-formed Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT). Whilst there she worked with Kate Pullinger to set up the MA in Creative Writing and New Media, a 90% online course with an international cohort of students. She also led the development of the concept of transliteracy, "the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks". Transliteracy continues to attract much interest among academics and librarians, especially in the United States, France, and Australia. The same year she was