Moonlighting Definition
The work you do outside of your writing.
Fiction
Fiction writer, literary critic, and erstwhile punk bassist, JP Solheim worked through high school as the assistant manager of a music store, then as a café barista and in the receiving room of a bookstore when they were college age but toured with their band instead. After they went to school, they worked as a textbook editor while they played more music…
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...
