María Mencía is an artist-researcher and Course Leader of the BA in Media and Communication at Kingston University, UK. Her PhD in Digital Poetics and Digital Art was one of the first practice-based research in the field of e-poetry and she has continued to explore the poetic space in hybrid textualities of language, art and digital technologies. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and it is published in the ELC1 and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature. Her publications include Gateway to the World: Data Visualisation Poetics (2016), E-Lit Practice and Pedagogy: Interweaving Methods, Content and Technology (2017); Transient Self-Portrait: The Data Self (2017) and she is the editor of
# WomenTechLit (2017).  Her most recent creative project is The Winnipeg: The Poem that Crossed the Atlantic (2017) accessible online. http://winnipeg.mariamencia.com/