Martha Payne, author of Put Him In, Coach!: A Mother's All-Star Memoir

A mother of four athletes and an avid baseball fan, Martha Payne is a former columnist for Chop Talk, the Atlanta Braves’ magazine, and a former feature writer and assistant editor of Augusta Magazine, city magazine of Augusta, Georgia.  A former English teacher, she holds a BA degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead Scholar, and an MA, also in English, from Vanderbilt University.  She has served on her local Little League board for seven years and is also a fiction writer.  Her first novel is scheduled for publication in 2008. Payne lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family.

To learn more about what inspired this stay-at-home mom to write Put Him In, Coach!, click on the link below and tune in to an interview she gave on the popular youth sports webcast site, Clubhouse Gas:

http://www.clubhousegas.com/archive_player.asp?URL=07_23_07/07-23-07_07-23-07?title=Put%20Him%20in%20Coach&date=07-23-07

To read print media articles about Payne and her literary pursuits, follow the links below:

http://www.neighbornewspapers.com/articles/2007/10/11/323/10277710.txt

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_118663.asp