THE 3 READERS:

D.K. McCUTCHEN’s Speculative Fiction trilogy includes: JELLYFISH DREAMING, a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE forthcoming (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 & the UK with an update by JackLeg Press, US (2023). D.K. teaches writing for College of Natural Sciences, UMass Amherst, and is an Associate Director of the Junior Year Writing Program.

KIRSTEN MOSHER is a visual artist and writer living in Buckland, MA. Her flash-book Zero (minutes to) Home was published by Selektion (Frankfurt, 2021), and her chapbook Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz has been recently published by Lily Poetry Review Books. She’s published in Ellipsis Zine, the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, The Cormorant Broadsheet and Sonder Magazine, and forthcoming in Exacting Clam. Her series Automotive Stories occasionally show up in the Automotive sections of local newspaper like the Greenfield Recorder. She’s currently working toward an exhibit at Frac Pay-de-La-Loire in Southern France, opening November 2024.

CINDY SNOW published her chapbook Small Ceremonies with Slate Roof press. She’s published in the Massachusetts Review, Peace Review, Worcester Review, Crannóg, and elsewhere. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart, won the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest, and was awarded honorable mentions from Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2017, and the Patricia Dobler Award, 2016. Cindy served as a Platte Clove Artist in Residence and was a writing fellow at Cill Rialaig, Ireland. At The Changing Nature of Art & Science Conference, 2017, Amsterdam, Cindy read from her manuscript on the 17th Century naturalist & botanist Maria Sibylla Merian. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, with her family.

3 READERS video at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Lederle Science & Engineering Library