After a decade of sailing the world with researchers in summer and assisting a glassblower in winter, D. K. McCutchen teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, and is an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program. Currently they live on a river with two brilliant daughters and a flightless Kiwi, and write LGBTQIA-friendly, gender-bender, post-apocalyptic speculative fiction.


Books include JELLYFISH DREAMING, winner of a Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, and WHALE ROAD, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart nominee about chasing whales through the South Pacific. JELLYFISH DREAMING's companion novel, ELECTRIC ICE, winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant, will be released soon.

Aug 22, 2024
Cover of Electric Ice

Electric Ice

Oct 16, 2023
Cover of Whale Road

Whale Road