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Jenna Putnam is a writer based in California. She is the author of the novelette Cicadas and the poetry collection Hold Still. Her work has appeared in Hero, ExPat Press, The Moth, The Sun, The New York Times, and others.
Her poem “The End (pt. II)” was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize, and her screenplay Northern Lights was a quarterfinalist for the 2024 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition. She directed the short film Agathe in 2021.
Putnam has written two feature-length screenplays: Northern Lights and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. She is currently working on a novel.