Author Description

<p>Douglas Payne's debut chapbook is a work that navigates with unflinching grace the graveled and beautiful landscapes of memory marked by apostasy, pain, intoxication, lust, and loss.</p><p>Douglas Payne's poems and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Muck and Muse, Shot Glass Journal, The Far East: Everything Just As It Is, A Year in Ink Vol. 5, and others. Payne is a San Diego native and an alumnus of Grossmont College's Creative Writing Program. Salted Rook was selected in 2016 as the Grand Prize Winner of the Grossmont College "First Book" competition.</p><p> </p>