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Chelsea Rozansky is a writer from Tkaronto/Toronto, currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. At present, she is underway on a collection of essays and short stories, "Children of That Thing (and other shorts)", with the support and thanks of the Canada Council for the Arts. Rozansky was awarded the Editorial Residency at Canadian Art in 2020. She held the position of Writer in Residence at C Magazine from 2018 - 2021, where she engaged in an intensive research project in the magazine’s archives. Motivated by Marxist critiques of historicism, her research at C focuses on questions around attribution, notability and collective labour within contemporary art discourse. Recently, Rozansky participated in the panel discussion "What Do We Think About Andy", hosted by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), programmed as part of the gallery's Andy Warhol retrospective. In 2019, Rozansky curated the exhibition “Once Very Familiar” at United Contemporary, where she held the position of Assistant Director. Rozansky has worked in various capacities at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax and Brick magazine in Toronto. Rozansky’s writing has appeared nationally and internationally in publications including Canadian Art, C Magazine, MOMUS, Afterimage, Peripheral Review, ARTORONTO, and Brick: A Literary Journal, among others. In 2019, she gave a public talk at the artist-run gallery Bunker 2, as part of artist Max Lester’s exhibition “A Fault Line in Me is a Fault Line in You”. In 2018, Rozansky presented her essay “In the footsteps of the Flâneuse: from Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting’ to Agnès Vardas’s Cléo from 5 to 7” at an academic conference hosted by the University of King’s College, from which she has a combined honours bachelor’s degree in journalism and contemporary studies. On occasion, Rozansky provides writing and editing service on a freelance basis. Feel free to inquire.