Claudia Putnam grew up in New England and lives now in western Colorado-with two manic huskies and an angry cat. Her fiction can be found in Confrontation, Cimarron Review, phoebe, Variant Literature, and elsewhere. A short memoir, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press creative nonfiction chapbook prize. Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize. She is the recipient of several residency awards, including the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy
