About
Jenni Milton is a writer whose fiction aims to center the embodied experience of queer people. Born in Rochester, NY, she studied at Connecticut College, Oxford University and the Columbia Publishing Course. After graduating, she worked in book and magazine publishing at One Story, Oxford University Press, and Grove Atlantic. She earned her MFA at the Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, where she taught composition, fiction writing and literary journalism. In her final year of the program, she was Fiction Editor of the Pushcart Prize-winning journal Faultline. She now works as a freelance creative director and writing workshop leader and plays violin with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. Her writing has appeared in Juked, A Distant Memory Zine and RipRap Journal. She lives in Brooklyn and is working on a novel and short stories.
More recently, she has begun working as a hotline volunteer for the New York City Anti-Violence Project and was certified through their training as a Rape Crisis Counselor. She was drawn to this work after surviving intimate partner violence. As someone living with and healing from C-PTSD from childhood abuse, compounded by PTSD from an abusive relationship, she is constantly deepening her somatic practice and will soon be certified in Body Temple Dance through the CID (International Dance Council), an official partner of UNESCO. These trauma-informed and somatic modalities will be at the heart of her next round of Embodied Writing Workshops.
Our traumas do not necessarily define us, but they do shape us. For those of us who are artists, we can metabolize these experiences into our work. It all begins in the body.
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