Deborah Hand-Cutler
Deborah Hand-Cutler is a writer and musician in Tehachapi, California. She began her writing career as a journalist, working for various publications, including as an editor for Fairchild Publications in New York, and as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston. She has been a columnist and contributing writer for her local newspapers, and has also worked as a radio and video producer. Along the way, she has been writing fiction, including plays performed by the Tehachapi Community Theatre. Deborah also served on the city council, and as mayor of Tehachapi. She and her husband, Peter Cutler, own Fiddlers Crossing, a concert venue in Tehachapi. They both are part of Folkscene, a radio program that has been on the air for over 50 years. Peter is the engineer and Deborah contributes interviews. A multi-instrumentalist, Deborah has played in several orchestras, and teaches cello and mountain dulcimer.
Her first novel, The Snake in the Garden, deals with racism in Arkansas during the twentieth century. It was written in collaboration with Brenda Sutton Turner, a former Motown artist who grew up under Jim Crow laws in Texarkana, Arkansas. Banned in Boston is her second novel, written first as a screenplay with Daniel M. Kimmel.
Deborah has won awards for her ten-minute plays in Tehachapi. Her first full-length production was a literal and musical adaptation of the Dylan Thomas prose-poem, "A Child's Christmas in Wales." Her lates work is "Eleven Exeter -- or The Christmas Beast," based on her life as a building manager of an old Victorian in Boston's elegant Back Bay.
Books By Deborah Hand-Cutler
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Black Horse Press
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