Jenna Putnam
Writer, Editor, and Creative Consultant
Born in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
Lives and works in California
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
LITERARY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
Fiction
2023 "A Life Not Forgotten", Popshot Quarterly
2023 "The Feelers", ExPat Press
2022 "Afterthought", Forever Magazine
2021 "Doris", Fugitives and Futurists
2021 "You're Always in Such a Hurry", Hobart
Poetry
2022 "The End (pt. II)", The Moth; Pidgeonholes
2022 "Azur" and "Our Body", Unpolished
2021 "The End of a Year" and "Candy", Rain Magazine
Essays and Nonfiction
2023 "The Agony and the Ecstasy: Cinema and Song's Endless Dance", Top Five Records
2023 "The Russian Five", Crease Periodical
2020 "Remembering Arthur Russel", Cosmic Vinyl
2020 "Ode to the Mall", Capsule 98
2019 "Deja Vu in a Snowstorm: A Love Story Through the Seasons", Capsule 98
Interviews
2021 "Harley Cortez, The Multidisciplinary Artist Capturing Life's Beauty and Pain", Hero Magazine
2019 "NYC-based Poet Pablo Conejero Lopez Talks Rhythm, Process, and Melody", Hero Magazine
BOOKS
Photography
2018 Untitled, Paradigm Publishing
Poetry
2017 Hold Still, Paradigm Publishing
SCREENWRITING AND DIRECTING
2023 “The Iris Phenomenon”, Screenwriter, Hero Magazine (editorial)
2021 Agathe, Director and Producer, Short Film
2020 Monarch, Additional Screenwriter, Feature Film, Dir. John Henry Hinkel (post-production)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2024 Quarterfinalist for Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition, screenplay for Northern Lights
2023 Pushcart Nomination for "The End (pt. II)", Pidgeonholes
2023 Quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft Film Fund, screenplay treatment for Northern Lights
ART WRITING, EDITING, AND CONSULTING
2024 Waave Foundation, Press Release
2024 Air Choir, Seán Shanahan, Madison Gallery, Press Release
2024 Adriane McCray, Artist Bio
2024 Lizzie Moran, Artist Bio
2023 A Chance Encounter, Bieke Depoorter, Application for Deutsche Borse Prize, Artist Statement
2023 Michael, Bieke Depoorter, Application for Prix Pictet Prize, Artist Statement
2023 Praxinoscope No. 3, Copy Editor
2022 Border Birds, Bieke and Dries Depoorter, Press Release
2022 A Chance Encounter, Bieke Depoorter, CO Berlin Exhibition
2021 Mono, Hiroko Matsubara and Sofia Fanego, Press Release
2019 Happy Faces, Eric Lyle Lodwick, Press Release
EXHIBITIONS, PANELS, AND PERFORMANCES
2019 Masculinity, M Space, Shanghai, China
2019 Paradigm Presents, Dover Street Market, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018 Cultural Traffic Art Fair, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018 Residency with Calvin Love, La Poubelle, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018 Daisies, Public Arts, New York, New York, USA
2018 Analog Printmaking in a Digital Age, Dover Street Market, New York, New York, USA
2018 Community Service Art Fair, The Void, Los Angeles, California, USA
PRESS
2021 "The Transparency of Longing: The Film 'Agathe' by Jenna Putnam and Agathe Pinard", Teeth Magazine
2021 Interview with Tellie
2020 "Front and Center", Hero Magazine
2018 "Make War", DNA Magazine
2018 "Up Front with Jenna Putnam", Baccalà
2017 "Review: Hold Still", Slug Magazine
2017 "The Patti Smith-inspired Artist Swapping Photography for Prose", Hero Magazine