Roberta Payne
Roberta Payne is a retired (most recently from the University of Denver) teacher of Italian and Latin and a nationally known speaker on the subject of schizophrenia. She has translated four volumes of poetry from the Italian and currently teaches Greek and Latin privately, when she is not working on various memoirs. Her work has appeared in Gettysburg Review and Narrative Magazine.
Reading List
Have You Ever Seen Such a Sight in Your Life
“Sicko! Weirdo!” A moment of silence. Then the young woman started over. She was in the observation room, to the north of the day room. It was where they put the worst patients when they first came in, people who …