Claire McEachern was born and raised in New Hampshire, though she has lived on the West Coast since 1990.  She is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature. Her scholarship centers on the work of Shakespeare, with an emphasis on religion, gender and politics. In addition to her monographs, she is the editor of two collections of essays, and has also edited several of Shakespeare’s plays for a variety of audiences, from the Pelican series to the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015).  She is the author of the creative non-fiction work, Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu, forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press (Fall 2025), a collection based on her twenty-five year experience of surviving in the wild-urban interface of the Santa Monica Mountains.  She currently resides with her family on a cattle and hay farm in southern Oregon, where she reads, writes and ranches.