Clare Willis
Clare Willis is an American author. As a child she lived in California, England (she holds a dual citizenship) and Italy. Later she has lived in Los Angeles and Massachusetts. Now she lives in San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two sons. Clare writes with her two dogs: a cockapoo named Mocha and a terrier mix shelter puppy called Riley. Her first own play "The Stepsisters" (a retelling of the Cinderella story) was performed by her fourth grade class at Parents' Night. During college at UC Santa Cruz she took creative writing classes, but succumbed to the convincing argument that she needed a "real job" to fall back on and added an…