Claudia Putnam is a writer living in a remote area of the Puget Sound. Before this, she lived for 42 years on the Colorado Plateau, where her novel-in-progress is set. She’s too busy finishing that book to blog, but you are welcome to scan the greatest hits below. Her poetry and fiction can be found in dozens of literary magazines; she has received major fellowships in support of her work; she gives readings. 

A novella, Seconds, is out from Neutral Zones Press. Order wherever books are sold.

A short memoir, Double Negative, won the creative nonfiction chapbook award from Split/Lip Press and can be found or ordered wherever books are sold. 

A poetry collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and can be ordered via Univ of Arkansas Press. 

A poetry chapbook, Wild Thing in Our Known World, came out in 2012 from Finishing Line Press.

Contact her at cputnam at indra (.) com.

(This photo is 11 years old now, and I don’t look like this anymore, but it’s how I still feel, inside. :D)