Claire Willett is an award-winning playwright from Portland, Oregon whose works include the play Dear Galileo; the musical Carter Hall; the chamber opera The Witch of the Iron Wood; and The Demons Down Under the Sea, a stage adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” The Rewind Files is her first novel. She holds a B.A. in Theatre from Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA) and currently lives in her hometown of Portland where she collects Liberace memorabilia, spends way too much money at Powell’s Books, freelances as a marketing and development consultant for arts nonprofits and spent eight years as a Catholic youth minister.