Moonlighting Definition
The work you do outside of your writing.
Fiction
Liz Lydic is a mother, and works full-time as a municipal government employee. She writes early in the mornings before work, during work when she needs a break from paper-pushing, and occasionally uses paid sick/vacation time to take a day off to write or participate in writing workshops and webinars.
Creative Nonfiction
Anthony Cordasco is a farmer, teacher, silversmith, caregiver, blacksmith, and maker of sundials. He writes on a Royal Quiet Delux typewriter. He knows his sheep and all there is about metal. Everything else is suspect.
Interviews
Lit Pub founder Molly Gaudry has worked as a barista, server, bartender, cocktail waitress, assistant manager, and headshop employee.
Poetry
Laurence Carr held too many jobs over the decades: Golf Caddy; The Popcorn King at Kennywood Amusement Park; painter (walls and fences); answered phones at numerous NYC businesses (was hastily dismissed for not knowing everything about the companies); actor (a modest career but got to play Lubbock, TX); a goal was to be a geek in a mid-western sideshow but my career swerved; theatre director, artistic director, playwright, mentor of creative and dramatic writer; editor; woods wanderer...
