Dorothy Payne currently runs ArtInternationale Gallery in San Francisco, where she curates literary/music events in the series "Communities Without Borders." She is an active member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, working closely with the pre-eminent "Poet for the People" Jack Hirschman, to whom she says she is "indebted beyond measure." She has published cultural critiques and poetry in anthologies and journals and performed in various poetry/music ensembles nationally and internationally.