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Roz Milner

(She/Her)
Toronto
Covers:  Jazz, contemporary classical, trans lit, contemporary fiction, CanLit, reissued music

Roz Milner’s Journalist Portfolio

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A Shot Across the Bow of Literary Fiction: A Review of Casey Plett's "A Safe Girl to Love"

A Shot Across the Bow of Literary Fiction: A Review of Casey Plett's "A Safe Girl to Love"

prismmagazine.ca — A Safe Girl to Love Casey PlettArsenal Pulp Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner For a few years, Casey Plett's first book, A Safe Girl to Love, was hard to find. Originally published by Topside Press almost a decade ago, the short story collection was generally unavailable after that press went under.

Puns & Sex Clubs: A Review of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Puns & Sex Clubs: A Review of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Lambda Literary Review — Queer life in New York City has always lent itself well to poets, and Cat Fitzpatrick’s new novel-in-verse is no exception.

Art for Art Jackson's Sake: Solving the Mystery of Gout

Art for Art Jackson's Sake: Solving the Mystery of Gout

beardedgentlemenmusic.com — (1) In May 2007, Never Get Out of the Boat, a now-defunct mp3 blog, shared a mysterious find: Gout, a never-released record by a group called Art Jackson's Atrocity. Everything about it seemed weird, mysterious and compelling: a near total lack of information, a lengthy and bizarre back-story and the music!

Literature Review: "The Boy with a Bird In His Chest" by Emme Lund - Literature

Literature Review: "The Boy with a Bird In His Chest" by Emme Lund - Literature

Live In Limbo — A charmingly told coming of age tale, Emme Lund's debut novel The Boy with a Bird in His Chest is a treat to read and bound to win over most readers. It follows Owen Tanner, a boy with a secret: he has a bird that lives in his chest.

Meet the ‘Lobster Claw’ and ‘Orange Crush’ of gender-affirming surgery

Meet the ‘Lobster Claw’ and ‘Orange Crush’ of gender-affirming surgery

Xtra Magazine — Writer Roz Milner reflects on the life-altering procedures she experienced alongside other trans people.

How a Stuffed IKEA Shark Became a Trans Icon

How a Stuffed IKEA Shark Became a Trans Icon

INTO — It's not as if Blahaj doesn't stand for LGBTQ rights...

Bad Trips: A Review of Buffy Cram's Once Upon An Effing Time

Bad Trips: A Review of Buffy Cram's Once Upon An Effing Time

prismmagazine.ca — There's a line about the 1960s that says if you can remember it, you weren't really there. But with that decade more than a half-century in the rear-view mirror, writers have been returning to it to try and explain how a time that created the Summer of Love also produced Altamont.

Rough Learning: A Review of Steacy Easton's Memoir Daddy Lessons

Rough Learning: A Review of Steacy Easton's Memoir Daddy Lessons

prismmagazine.ca — Daddy Lessons Steacy EastonCoach House Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner Growing up queer in the Canadian prairies can be hard enough, but for someone who's neurodivergent, it can be almost impossible to imagine. How does one navigate lines of desire and want when they struggle with social cues and fitting in?

Post by @dustedmagazine · 1 audio track

Post by @dustedmagazine · 1 audio track

Random BL Musings (Rants, Screams and News) — The Hemphill Stringtet - Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) · Dusted Magazine

Book Review: Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik

Book Review: Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik

thetransfemininereview.com — Overshadowed by other releases, Daniel Sarah Karasik's 2024 debut novel Disobediance is a parable of community building, queer love, and hope after the apocalypse. Reviewed by Roz Milner.