Alaska Hoffman is a Michigander poet and product builder based in Brooklyn, New York.
She designs and builds software concerned with reading, language, and interface. She is the creator of portaltext (2026), a consumer AI browser extension that expands upon hypertext, and andstar (2026), a plaintext engine and publication platform for interactive fiction.
Her software and experiments also span desktop research tools, generative worlds, games, and AI interfaces, from released projects to works in progress.
From 2024 to 2026 she was a product designer at DX Research Group, and is a co-author of “Operating-Layer Controls for Onchain Language-Model Agents Under Real Capital” (arXiv, 2026).
Her writing is interested in themes of noise, futurism, permanence, hauntology, transition, repetition, and historicity.
She has a B.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is a USMC veteran.
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