Jennifer Milton

Jenni Milton is a violinist, director and writer whose work aims to center the embodied experience of queer people. Her work is as much focused on how we navigate trauma and mental illness as it is on how we insist on love and joy in a world that is increasingly hostile toward us. 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 an Associate Creative Director, teaches with Blue Stoop and Lambda Literary, and plays violin with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. She has published work in Juked, A Distant Memory Zine and RipRap Journal, and is working on a novel and a short horror film. She has played violin since the age of seven and earned a B.A. in Music with a concentration of Violin Performance at Connecticut College. For the past 17 years, she has performed in ensembles in New London, CT, Oxford, UK, Irvine, CA, Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY.