Seattle-born artist and writer, C.E. Putnam maintains the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research (P.I.S.O.R.). He is the author of six books all re-issued in 2012: The Papier-Mâché Taj Mahal (1997), XX Elegies, (1998) Spaces Where Spaces Are (1999), Transmissions from the Institute (2000), Maniac Box (2001), Things Keep Happening (2003).
His collaborations include a renga-inspired work with Allison Cobb and Jen Coleman, Communal Bebop Canto (1997); and with Daniel Comiskey, Crawlspace (2007), the world's first book length collaborative book of poetry with an anaglyphic 3-D cover.
He is just completed his second year of a four year posting as Poetry Attache in Singapore, Singapore for P.I.S.O.R. He is currently at work on a seven-volume time-space travelogue entitled, The Bunny Manuscript (forthcoming 2015).