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D.K. McCUTCHEN’s Speculative Fiction trilogy includes: JELLYFISH DREAMING (Leapfrog Press 2023) a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE (2024) winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant; & PARABLE OF THE PLASTIC EATERS, a novella 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 (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 was an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program until 2025.