Richard Holeton
Richard Holeton is a writer, education consultant, and Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Environments, Emeritus, at Stanford University, following a 30-year career as an educator and academic technology leader.
Previously he served as Senior Director of Learning Environments, Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, and Director of Academic Computing Services. He's taught writing at CaƱada College, San Francisco State University, and Stanford, where he was a lecturer for 12 years in the English Department and writing program, helping pioneer digital and networked pedagogies and the design of technology-rich learning spaces.
His creative work includes the critically-recognized hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Eastgate Systems), widely exhibited electronic literature, award-winning short stories, and experimental poetry. Holeton has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Brown Foundation/Dora Maar House, the California Arts Council, and the Henfield Foundation/Transatlantic Review Award.
His scholarship includes articles, book chapters, and innovative college textbooks such as Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (McGraw-Hill). Co-creator of the Learning Space Rating System (EDUCAUSE), he served six years as co-leader of the EDUCAUSE Learning Space Design Community Group and four years on the Board of Directors for the NMC (New Media Consortium).
Holeton studied at Stanford University (BA with Distinction) and San Francisco State University (MA, Honors; MFA). He lives on the San Mateo County coast near Half Moon Bay, California.
Works

Lumber World
My unpublished 1984 novel LUMBER WORLD is now a proud part of The Brautigan Library's Digital Collection, an eccentric repository for abandoned (but still hopeful) manuscripts. See also Volume II, LUMBER WORLD: The Rejection File, an annotated record of the novel's rejection letters from some well-known agents and editors.
"Going to the Lumber Yard may never be the same again!" proclaims the fictional book jacket. "Big business and government agents team up, with their banks of computers and surveillance satellites, for an immense top-secret energy project in the Sahara Desert; as they become entangled with a small band of nomads and, halfway around the world, the eccentric crew of a California lumber yard, the results offer both analysis and antidote for modern times."