About the Author

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D.K. McCUTCHEN teaches writing for UMass Amherst's College of Natural Sciences. Publications include THE WHALE ROAD, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book & Pushcart nominee (creative non-fiction about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific to NZ), inclusion in several Fish Publishing Award anthologies for "The Glass Bitch," "April Fool & The Feministas," and "The Zen of Kakapo Poo," writings in Fourth Genre, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rosebud, Identity Theory, Lady Churchills' Rosebud Wristlett (LCRW), The Mossy Skull, and others. She currently writes hopeful, gender-bender- post-apocalyptic-speculative-fiction, including JELLYFISH DREAMING (JFD) a Leapfrog Gobal Fiction YA Prizewinner judged by Rosanne Parry (!), and Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist. The author lives on -- and swims in -- the cleanest watershed in Massachusetts with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi that followed her home from New Zealand (so she kept him).