Nikki Payne

There is a reason the same story can be told over and over and never get old. There are certain ideas we love to revisit. As an anthropologist, I understand the power of a well told fairy tale and am unapologetic about my love for Romance Tropes.

I believe in building the world I want to live in, so my heroes and heroines come from many backgrounds - though I borrow heavily from my own southern African American experience.

Church on Sunday and romance novels are some of the most racially segregated spaces, as such, multicultural love still strikes me as the last frontier in romance writing and in creating shared understanding.

By day I am a PhD cultural anthropologist, solving big tech problems - by night, I dream of subverting classic literature.