Steve Putnam

In the ancestral shadows of farmers, builders, and ice dealers, Steve Putnam worked as a mechanic and carpenter. As a copier tech, he guest-starred in the corporate florescence of a large life insurance company. When the printer fleet was up and running, he hid out in his basement shop and drafted the Academy of Reality. Corporate people never suspected they were funding a novel about the curious ways of big business. Putnam earned the title ‘Tech of the Year’ and trip to Arizona. Academy of Reality was later shortlisted as a Novel-in-Progress in the 2016 New Orleans Faulkner-Wisdom Competition.

Steve Putnam’s short fiction has appeared Whiskey Island, Main Street Rag, and in a number of Scribes Valley Publishing anthologies. Also, the author of Nature’s Ritalin for the Marathon Mind, it’s no surprise that he self-medicates, paddling a marathon canoe with wife, Cynthia