Hi, I'm Alex. Welcome!
I'm a programmer, writer, artist, and
PhD student at UC Santa Cruz.
I study writing technology, games, and critical AI literacy.
Publications
Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette November 2024
writing tools code paper language Arxiv Preprint
Phraselette November 2024
writing tools code paper system Arxiv Preprint
Designing for Posthuman Critical Literacy November 2023
writing tools paper In2Writing '24 (CHI Workshop)
There and Back Again June 2023
code games paper Best Paper Award: AAAI '23
Spinning Interactive Fiction June 2022
games paper Spinning Coherent Interactive Fiction through Foundation Model Prompts in ICCC '22
A Review of Writing Support Tools March 2022
paper writing tools A Review of Writing Support Tools Using a Cognitive Process Model of Writing
How Novelists Use Generative Language Models March 2020
paper How Novelists Use Generative Language Models in HAI-GEN
Journalism
Automated Disinformation Report January 2020
Selected Art
Untitled Dadakuku Poem June 2025
Ways of Knowing (Digital Poem) June 2025
A Prism (Digital Poem) June 2025
Miscellaneous