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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CREDITS:
Host: Tim Barnes
Guest: Claire Willett
Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez
Music Engineer: Adam Smith
Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla
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