Willet was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently lives in Brooklyn and Boston. He has a BA from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; and an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. In his work, Willett explores family, history, memory and social environments. A Parallel Road is his third monograph, following The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer (Overlapse, 2017) and Disquiet (Damiani, 2013). He has been published in Harper's, Newsweek, The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, among others.
