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[Claire Willett] Is The Genre
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[Claire Willett] Is The Genre

How novelist and playwright Claire Willett allows reality to clash with fantasy in her personal life and work.

Tim Barnes chats with novelist and playwright Claire Willett about the connections between her faith, queerness, and fandom.

Portland native Claire Willett is a playwright, novelist, former Catholic youth minister, and nonprofit grantwriter. She is a past recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama, has received creative project grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission, was a founding artist of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Work (for which she wrote five plays and two librettos), and spent six years as a company member of the award-winning Portland-based writers' collective Playwrights West.

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