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Moonlighting Bio: 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. In graduate school, they taught French and English comp while studying literature and writing. They’ve had a nice range of titles as contingent faculty, including Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Adjunct Instructor, and Honors Fellow, and several more titles as a contracted administrator, with programs and services appended to direction and management. They supplement their income as a freelance academic editor. They live with their partner and child, whom they raised until recently as a solo parent.
Traditional Bio: JP Solheim is a fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic. The author of The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2018), their fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, MQR: Mixtape, Midwest Weird Audio Literary Magazine, The Pinch, and Poets & Writers. They were also bassist, singer, and songwriter in several Chicago indie punk bands. They hold a PhD in French from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Writing and Literature (fiction) from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and have taught at the University of Michigan, Université de Paris VII, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as writing centers across the United States. They serve as the Associate Director of the BookEnds novel revision fellowship at The Lichtenstein Center of Stony Brook University.