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Ann McCutchan is an essayist, journalist, memoirist, biographer, librettist, and musician. Of her five books, the earliest are a biography of French flute virtuoso Marcel Moyse (1994) and The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (1999) -- both important contributions to the literature of music and creativity. In 2011, she published two titles: Circular Breathing: Meditations From a Musical Life, and River Music: An Atchafalaya Story, an eco-biography of Louisiana musician Earl Robicheaux and the vanishing Atchafalaya River Basin he preserves and celebrates in sound. Where's the Moon? A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream was released in 2016.  Her sixth book,The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, is scheduled for publication with W.W. Norton in early 2021.

As a librettist, Ann recently completed Swan's Inlet, an opera based on an original story, in collaboration with composer Mark Alan Taggart (March 2018 premiere, Center for Contemporary Opera, NYC) and Purewater, a chamber opera based on André Gide's novella La Symphonie Pastorale, with composer Andrew Rudin, set for performance by the CCO in the 2019-2020 season.  Coming up in November 2019 is the premiere of Circle of Light, a choral anthem with composer Anne Guzzo.  Among Ann's eight previous musical texts is an original stage play for Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (Chamber Music Hawaii commission).


Sample: Intellectual Refuge published an excerpt from Where's the Moon?  Read it here.
And a second excerpt! Here.


Documentary: Here is Home: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek
by Sonya Doctorian; AMc interview, story consultant

Interview: "Writing Out of the Worlds You Know," Concerning Where's the Moon?, musical projects and other work.  Published by American Literary Review. Here's the link.