Claudia Putnam is a craniosacral therapist in western Colorado. She has been evacuated or on standby due to wildfire several times. Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and came out in March 2022. A personal essay, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press chapbook prize and also came out in March. Among other residencies, she received the Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy.