Amy Payne’s writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review; CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Medium; Nimrod; Puerto del Sol; the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine; and Story Magazine, among other journals. She recently released her final chapter of Neighbor, A Handbook, on Medium. Her latest series, Wondering, is being released on Substack and Medium. Awarded the AWP Intro Journals Project in Fiction in 2005, she is grateful to have been nominated for a variety of cool grants and recognition over the years.