Maer Roshan

Maer Roshan is an American writer, editor and entrepreneur who has launched several magazines and websites, including Radar Magazine and the entertainment website Radaronline.com. In 1992, Roshan founded and edited the gay weekly QW, which covered gay politics and the AIDS epidemic. More recently Roshan started TheFix.com, a daily website about addiction, recovery and the drug war. His most recent work is a I-pad publication called Punch!

He has also served as the longtime deputy editor of New York, editorial director of Talk and features editor of Interview. He has written for The New York Times, the Miami Herald, New York, The New Republic, The Advocate, Details and Harper’s Bazaar. He has authored a book on the New York club scene and a biography of Courtney Love.

Early life

Born in Teheran, Iran on August 13, 1967, Roshan moved to New York in 1979, at the age of twelve, shortly after the Islamic Revolution, when his American-run school was bombed. He attended Ohr Torah High School in Forest Hills, Queens and graduated from New York University with degrees in politics and journalism. He began his media career in 1989 as a police and military reporter at the Key West Citizen and later worked as a stringer for The Miami Herald. He launched his first magazine, the gay weekly QW in 1991, during the height of the AIDS crisis, recruiting writers and editors including Andrew Solomon and David Rakoff. The magazine's coverage of politics and culture earned it a general excellence award from the Alternative Press Association. Soon after, Time Inc. hired him to create a national gay glossy, Tribe.