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Rebecca Brown on teaching and paying the bills<\/h3>\n

\"RebeccaOften someone else\u2019s words describe something so well that the words become a reliable reference point. In pursuing my curiosity about the nature of work, the following passage has done this for me. It appears in \u201cAn Interview with Rebecca Brown,\u201d by Alex Davis-Lawrence, which is published in <\/em>Moss, Volume One.1<\/sup> After speaking about why and how much she loves it, Rebecca says this about teaching\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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And of course it\u2019s paid a lot of my bills. At different times in my writing, I\u2019ve made nice money, but I have not supported myself entirely with writing. So, I don\u2019t teach out of the good of my heart as much as the need of my pocketbook. [laughs] As far as the range of different places where I\u2019ve taught \u2013 libraries, prisons, universities, colleges, workshops, Hugo House, living rooms, summer camps \u2013 when I first got out of graduate school, I looked for a full-time tenure-track teaching job and I got turned down a million times. But over the long haul, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t find one job and then just stick to it forever. I\u2019ve had to kind of keep jumping, hustling, and you get to know different people if you\u2019re out there. I think I have a broad sense of what\u2019s out there, because I haven\u2019t been full time secure in one location or job.<\/p>\n

Now I see young friends who are getting full-time tenure jobs pretty early and I\u2019m, like, \u201cwatch out.\u201d Like, don\u2019t become someone who gets so secure in a job you kind of stop writing. I think sometimes if you lose the hunger, you kind of, I don\u2019t know\u2026lose the edge or urgency you need to make your work.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>\u00a0 Moss is an online journal dedicated to bringing Northwest literature to new audiences and exposing the emerging voices of the region to discerning readers, critics, and publishers. It was founded in 2014 and publishes three times annually. <\/em>Moss<\/a>, Volume One, put the first three online issues into print, September 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

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