Writers’ Day Jobs

Martin Ott explains why being a technical project manager is the perfect job for a writer.

Fiction writer Jenn Scott shares her perspective on the craft of being a server in the restaurant industry: “I love juggling nine thousand things at once and smoothing over potential catastrophes.”

Our contributor Joanna Pearson, psychiatrist and fiction writer, on how her day job relates to her writing life.

Up next in the Writers’ Day Jobs series, Yxta Maya Murray, a novelist, art critic, playwright, and law professor.

The first in a new series of features on writers’ day jobs.