Hope Ewing is a Los Angeles-based New York writer and occasional bartender. You can find her nerding out about booze and bars at PUNCH, Serious Eats, and various neighborhood guides for L.A., and her fiction at The Stinging Fly and Blunderbuss. Her forthcoming book, Movers and Shakers: Advice from the Women Changing the Alcohol Industries (Unnamed Press, fall 2018), will finally put to rest all questions about what it’s like to be a woman in the drinks business, as if it is some kind of unfortunate condition. She tweets and ‘grams at @greatbooisup.