Claudia Putnam lives in Western Colorado, where she has a small craniosacral therapy practice. Her fiction appears in Cimarron Review, Sunspot Lit, phoebe, bosque, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has previously appeared in The Write Launch. Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and should be out by the end of 2021. A long personal essay, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press CNF chapbook prize and is forthcoming in March 2022. She's had a few residencies, including The Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, and most recently at Hypatia-in-the-Woods.