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Michael H. Payne
From Comixpedia
Michael H. Payne (born February 10, 1965) is a writer, musician, and artist who lives in southern California. After winning 3rd place in the 1990 Writers of the Future Contest with the second story he'd ever written, he has had short fiction published in magazines ranging from Asimov's Science Fiction to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy to Tomorrow Speculative Fiction. His 1998 novel, The Blood Jaguar, was nominated for the William L. Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel, and his story "Familiars" won the Ursa Major Award in 2002. He writes and draws the webcomics Terebinth and Daily Grind. The latter is his entry in the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge.
He clerks for the Newport Beach Public Library, sings and plays guitar at several southern California Catholic churches, and hosts The Darkling Eclectica, a radio program broadcast every Saturday morning over KUCI-FM in Irvine, California. He is a member of SFWA and co-ordinates their Circulating Book Plan.
