Paul Collette graduated from El Segundo High School, El Camino College, and the University of California State College at Long Beach with a BA in Speech/Communications/Drama and a minor in Creative Writing. He was a high school and middle school Drama, Speech, and English teacher in Southern California for 30 plus years. Additionally, in the 1980s he directed high school and community musicals and plays, and in the mid-1990s he coached a championship girls high school softball team.

He has written many plays and musicals. Most are published with Contemporary Drama Service and Pioneer Drama Service. The most noteworthy play he has penned is the family one-act musical entitled Toy Camp for which he received the 1995 "Shubert Fendrich Memorial National Playwriting Award." He has recently published two Young Adult/Adult novels, Zoey Cummings and the Box of Time and Zoey Cummings and the Relics of Bergen-Belsen with Trafford Publishing. Both novels won "Mary Ann Pfenninger National Literary Awards" in 2003 and 2004.

Currently, he lives with his wife and son in Redondo Beach in Southern California where he is retired from teaching and now writes and lectures full-time. He also enjoys sports and is an avid baseball fan. His favorite team? The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim!