Claudia Putnam

http://claudiaputnam.com

@lioncaller

Claudia Putnam's literary short fiction and poetry appear in Phoebe, Cimarron Review, South Dakota Review, Adirondack Review, Roanoke Review, Literary Mama, MARGIE, Artful Dodge, and in many other journals. She taught writing at the University of Colorado-Boulder for several years and more recently has earned a living writing marketing copy and doing social media for Microsoft and other software companies. As the 2011-2012 George Bennett Fellow/Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, she'll have a break from all that, with full support for nine months while she works on finishing her novel, HEIST, a timely examination of the way we've mythologized robbery in American culture.

In the past she's also been honored with a Ragdale Foundation residency fellowship, and one of her manuscripts has placed first in its category at the Pike's Peak Writers' Conference. She's been a finalist in two Glimmer Train contests and a semi-finalist in a Tupelo Press book-length poetry contest.