Nina C. Payne lives in Solana Beach, CA. She is a poet, novelist, wife, a mother of two, and a registered yoga instructor.  Prior to her current life, she was managing a fast paced financial services company.  After the birth of her first child in 1998, she left the corporate world to raise her children and discovered her passion for yoga. Her love of yoga goes beyond physical postures, and she finds great pleasure in studying the philosophy, psychology, and physiology of yoga.

Her debut novel, Moments in Time, is strongly inspired by her real-life experiences. Having lost her brother to cancer and then her father four months later to a broken heart, it explores the obstacles many of us face and the courage it takes to overcome them.