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'''Robert Arellano''' (born July 12, 1969) is an American author, musician and educator from [[Talent, Oregon]].<ref>[https://literary-arts.org/2014/05/olf-recipient-spotlight-robert-arellano/ Oregon Literary Fellowship Spotlight: Robert Arellano] Retrieved 2018-11-27.</ref>
==Life==
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 fiction|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).▼
▲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 fiction|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|date=August 2021}}
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 [[Los Alamos, New Mexico]];<ref>Romancito, Rick, ''Tickling theDragon'', Tempo Magazine, The Taos News, March 15–21, 2012</ref> and in 2010 his novel ''Havana Lunar'' was a finalist for an [[Edgar Award|Edgar Allan Poe Award]], nominated by the Mystery Writers of America. He has published fiction and essays in ''[[Jane (magazine)|Jane]]'', ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', ''[[Tin House]]'', and ''[[The Village Voice]]''.
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==Music==
As Bob Arellano, he has played guitar with [[Will Oldham]] (a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) on the albums [[I See a Darkness]], [[More Revery]], and [[Joya (album)|Joya]] as well as in performance and on recordings with Papa M ([[David pajo|David Pajo]]), Jodie Jean Marston, the Pathetics and Havanarama. In March of 2000, Arellano organized an international music exchange in [[Havana]] and [[Pinar del Rio, Cuba]] called "Rock the Blockade"<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Havanarama-Rock-The-Blockade-2000-Incorruptible/release/750876 Havanarama - Rock The Blockade: 2000 Incorruptible (CD) at Discogs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> featuring Cuban performers in concert with Will Oldham, Papa M, Speed to Roam, and Havanarama.
==See also==
*[[List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works]]
*[[E-book#History]]
*[[Electronic literature]]
*[[Hypertext fiction]]
*[[Interactive fiction]]
*[[Literatronica]]
==References==
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[[Category:Novelists from Oregon]]
[[Category:People from Talent, Oregon]]
[[Category:American electronic literature writers]]
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