Robert Arellano

Robert Arellano (born July 12, 1969) is an American author, musician and educator from

Arellano was born in 1969 and raised in Summit, New Jersey. After earning both Bachelor (1991) and Masters (1994) degrees from Brown University, he taught for a decade on Brown's Literary Arts faculty. In 1993 he used Storyspace to publish the Internet's first hyperzine, LSD-50, on a Gopher server. In 1996, Sonicnet serialized his groundbreaking hypertext novel Sunshine ’69 on the World Wide Web. Arellano is a founding member of the Literary Advisory Board of the Electronic Literature Organization and founding director of the Center for Emerging Media and Digital Arts at Southern Oregon University. He has been awarded the Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction (2014) and a Rockefeller Foundation Literary Arts Fellowship (2016).^{[citation needed]}

His most recent novel, Havana Libre, about the 1997 terrorist bombings of tourist destinations in Cuba, was published by Akashic Books in 2017. In 2012, Akashic published his novel Curse the Names about a reporter living and working in

• As Bobby Rabyd, LSD-50 (1993)[5]
• As Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine 69 (1996)

the World Wide Web's first interactive novel,^[6] Sunshine 69

• Fast Eddie: King of the Bees (2001)
  ISBN 978-1-888451-22-1
• As Eddy Arellano, Dead in Desemboque: Historias de Amor y Sangre! (2008)
  ISBN 978-0-9796636-4-2

collaboration with artists William Schaff, Richard Schuler, and Alec Thibodeau on a graphic-novel tribute to Mexican comic books

• Don Dimaio of La Plata (2004),
  ISBN 978-1-888451-51-1
• Havana Lunar

Nominated for a 2010

Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America,^[7]

• Curse the Names, (2012)
  ISBN 978-1-61775-030-4
• Havana Libre, (2017)
  ISBN 978-1-61775-583-5

• List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works
• E-book#History
• Electronic literature
• Hypertext fiction
• Interactive fiction
• Literatronica

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