D.K. McCutchen’s speculative fiction trilogy includes JELLYFISH DREAMING, a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE (2024), winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant; and PLASTIC EATERS, in progress. 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 and the UK with an update by JackLeg Press, US (2023). D.K. teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an associate director of the Junior Year Writing Program.
