Fiction. CALL ME WAITER is a memoir, with a few liberties taken, of poet and novelist Joseph Torra's twenty years as a waiter and "working the stick" (bartending) in and around Boston. Restaurant work was Torra's night job affording him the time to write his poems (Keeping Watching the Sky, AFTER THE CHINESE) and his My Ground trilogy of novels. There are no celebrity chefs in Torra's book but plenty of adventures inside the kitchen, out on the restaurant floor and behind the bar. It is a book about one man's world of work. Now Torra can write Call Me Writer.

Author City: SOMERVILLE, MA USA

Joseph Torra, editor, poet and novelist, lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts, and teaches writing at UMass Boston. His books include the poetry collections AUGUST LETTER TO MY WIFE AND DAUGHTERS (Pressed Wafer, 2000), AFTER THE CHINESE (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and TIME BEING (Quale Press, 2012), and the novels THEY SAY (Quale Press, 2007), CALL ME WAITER (Pressed Wafer, 2008), and WHAT'S SO FUNNY (Pressed Wafer, 2011).

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