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Paul Hecht is a pianist and composer based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Chicago, IL. He perform regularly at venues in both cities and collaborate with a wide variety of area musicians.

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As a writer, he has published essays about sixteenth-century English poetry and drama, including Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. His book, What Rosalind Likes, an origin story of English poetry and a biography of a fictional character across works by three authors from 1579–1600, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.