Claudia Putnam: Writer/Poetry & Prose

A photo of Tahoma (colonizer name is Mt. Rainier) on the right with a similarly shaped cloud on the left. Forest in foreground.
Tahoma (right) & its spirit friend. Photo by Claudia Putnam

What’s Underneath: Landscape, Character, Vulnerability

Claudia Putnam is a writer living in Western Washington with two huskies and a ticked-off cat. Before that, she spent decades on the Colorado Plateau. She was born and raised in New England. Her work focuses on the intensities of the these bioregions and the people who live inside them. Currently, she is exploring the juxtaposition of the serene PNW forests and coastlines and the tectonic mosh pit underlying them.

Books
Chapbook cover showing image of coyote sitting in snow. Title: Wild Thing in Our Known World
poetry chapbook
Poetry book cover, featuring abstract landscape painting with upthrust rocks suggestive of city. Title: The Land of Stone and River
poetry
Black hole depicted in rough white circle surrounded by black. Title, Double Negative, is rendered with a reversed image of the lettering below.
memoir
Novella cover, oil painting with moody, foggy tone, featuring tree and old, white barn with forest in the background,. Title: Seconds.
novella
Author photo: headshot of Claudia Putnam reading poetry before a microphone.
Reading at Olympia Poetry Network