Trip Payne is senior editor of the Zynga app Crosswords With Friends; his puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Games, Out, and others. He was profiled in the crossword documentary Wordplay, appeared as a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and was the Word Expert on the CBS game show Million Dollar Password. His many puzzle books for Puzzlewright and Puzzlewright Jr. include Sit & Solve Crosswords, Sit & Solve Fun & Easy Cryptograms, and Pop Culture Word Search Puzzles, among others. Trip lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles.