John Cayley, professor of Literary Arts was named the 2017 Marjorie C. Luesbrink Career Achievement Award recipient by the Electronic Literature Organization. The award was given based on Cayley's decades-long contributions to the field, for digital works ranging from riverIsland (1999) through The Reader's Project (with Daniel Howe) and his latest work, The Listeners, which uses a data-gathering robot to conduct literary experimentation. The Electronc Literature Organization is a non-profit organization comprised of an international community of writers, artists, teachers, scholars and developers. The award was presented to John Cayley at this year's ELO conference, held in Porto, Porgual.