Sonny Brewer owned Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. Editing, publishing, and writing have been the consistent thread in a tapestry of work and jobs that has included everything from radar and electronics repair to deck-handing on a tugboat, from magazine editing to teaching high school English, from freelance writing for lawyers and corporations to finding and publishing new writers. He now edits for MacAdam Cage
In 2010 he edited the collection of autobiographical essays: Don't Quit your Day Job