Essays and Excerpts

Here are links to a few published essays and book excerpts.

“The Literary Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston” (2021) adapted from chapters of The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of “The Yearling” (W.W. Norton, 2021) and published online by The Literary Ladies Guide.

The Page 99 Test: The Life She Wished to Live (June 8, 2021). https://page99test.blogspot.com/2021/06/ann-mccutchans-life-she-wished-to-live.html?

“Reaching for the End of Time” was first published in Image, and appeared in The Best American Spiritual Writing, 2007. It is included in Circular Breathing: Meditations From a Musical Life (Sunstone, 2011).

“Isle Royale: A Reflection” (2019) meditates on a significant residency at Isle Royale National Park.

“Day School” is an excerpt from Where’s the Moon? A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream (TAMU Press, 2016).