About
D.K. McCUTCHEN’s Speculative Fiction trilogy includes: JELLYFISH DREAMING (Leapfrog Press 2023) a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE (forthcoming Aug 2024) winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant; & PLASTIC EATERS (forthcoming 2025). WHALE ROAD, Creative Nonfiction about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific was a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart Nominee, published in NZ (2004), the UK (2006) & with an update by JackLeg Press, US (2023). The author teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program.
Featured Work
JELLYFISH DREAMING
IN THE JELLYFISH DREAMING, beside the Atlantic-Coast-that-was, hard Fisher people from a dozen races and places fetch up in the Trash Cafe, last stop before the Great Garbage Ocean. The ocean coughs up jellyfish and plastic rubbish these days. But Jack remembers things no one else does, like birds and frogs. The lonely, 200-year-old teenager never quite makes it to adulthood before resetting, like the immortal jellyfish Turitopsis.
Other Works
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ELECTRIC ICE
2024
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WHALE ROAD
2023
Awards and Recognition
- • LeapFrog Global Fiction Prize: Publication in US & UK, 2022 • Write Angles Virtual Conference Manuscript Proposal Award, 2020 • Speculative Literature Foundation Grant, 2015 • Fish International Short Story Prize, Finalist/Contributor 2006 & 2009, 2014 • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Grant Finalist 2012 • Pushcart Nomination, 2005 • The Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List, 2005 • Best New American Voices, Nominated 2001 & 2003 • William Faulkner Award for Short Fiction, First Place 2001 • Money for Women, Barbara Demming Memorial Fund, Awarded 2001 • AWP Journals Project, Nonfiction, Honorable Mention 2000
