Claudia Putnam’s work has recently appeared in Penumbra, GW Review, and Facets, and is forthcoming in Artful Dodge. She has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train contests, and her book-length collection was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Tupelo Press poetry contest. She taught writing for three years at the University of Colorado and was a past Ragdale Foundation fellow. In August, Claudia took a master class with Marvin Bell at Pacific Lutheran University.