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Tonia Payne received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1999. Her dissertation was entitled A Heart That Watches and Receives'; Ursula K. Le Guin and the American Nature Writing Tradition.
Currently, she is a tenured assistant professor in the English department at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York. Among her scholarly publications are '''We Are Dirt: We Are Earth': Ursula Le Guin and the Problem of Extra-Terrestrialism" in Nature in Líterary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism (Nature, Culture and Literature 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006) and "Dark Brothers and Shadow Souls: Ursula Le Guin's Animal 'Fables,'" in What Are the AnimaIs to Us? Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Líterature, and Art (U Tennessee P, 2007).