“Consider yourself very lucky if you get the chance to study writing with Matt Payne. Matt’s a great writer because he’s a great person: funny, endlessly creative (ask him about One Weird Shoe), and deeply interested in…well, everything. He has a handle on how awesome it is to be alive. It shows in his work, and anyone who enters his sphere will get to revel in it. You’ll come away a better writer. More observant. More tuned in. More daring. And even if you never turn that into external riches, you’ll become a better person for it.”