photo by Gabriela Cavalier
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 and the 2023 Screencraft Film Fund. She directed the short film Agathe and is currently working on a novel.