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Jodi Payne spent many years in New York and San Francisco stage managing classical plays, edgy fringe work, and the occasional musical. When she's not writing orvacuuming sand out of her laptop, Jodi mentors queer youth and will drop everything for live music. She lives near New York City with her wife and children.BA Tortuga, having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hardcore cowboys to werewolves, does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but now resides in the Sandias.