Ann McCutchan

Ann McCutchan holds a B.M. in Music Performance from Florida State University, an M.M. in Music Performance from the University of Michigan, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston.

She is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994) and The Muse That Sings: Composers SpeakAbout the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her personal essays have appeared in Boulevard, Image, Cimarron Review, and other journals, and have twice been cited in Best American Essays. Ms. McCutchan is the author of several published music libretti, as well. During her early career as a journalist, she wrote hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on the fine and literary arts, travel, and the environment.

Ann McCutchan has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the National Park Service, Cornell University, the University of Wyoming, and the Wyoming Arts Council. She is the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educational Press Association of America, and in 1999 she held the Ward Lectureship in Religious Imagination at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

Office: Auditorium Building, Room 216
Phone: 940.565.2188
Email: annmmc@earthlink.net