Again and Again was inspired by Juliet Wittman’s experience with breast cancer: the vivid intensity of daily life when that life is threatened, the profound relationships among patients, and the anger, laughter, grief and moments of blazing insight these patients share.

Wittman has worked as an investigative reporter, theater critic for Westword, book reviewer for the Washington Post, and writing instructor at the University of Colorado. She has published a critically praised novel with food at its heart, Stocker’s Kitchen, along with short stories and essays, and has won several journalism awards. Her memoir, Breast Cancer Journal: A Century of Petals, won the Colorado Book Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. Wittman also received a True West Award as Person of the Year, given for Denver arts coverage. This described her as “a rabble-rousing Brit and self-described hippie, adding, “Wittman loved the local theatre community, and no one could articulate that love as poetically as she could. But she could also lay the hammer down.”