︎ Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism have appeared in BOMB , Mousse , Fence , C Magazine , Kijiji, and elsewhere, and her chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper (with Katie Lyle). She publishes books by emerging artists and writers under the small press Blank Cheque , and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Contact: jacquelynzross {at} gmail {dot} com
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2021 ~ Laurie Kang: Story of the Gut (forthcoming)
A catalogue essay to accompany the exhibition Unfixed: Laurie Kang and Chris Curreri at Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, curated by Meredith Preuss 2020
A short story for the group exhibition The Pandemic is a Portal at SFU Galleries, Vancouver, curated by Karina Irvine, Christopher Lacroix and cheyanne turions
A fictional accompaniment to Erdem Taşdelen's public billboard project, Vicissitudes , at Mercer Union, Toronto 2019
An essay on the kind of art that is suspiciously easy to digest? for Mousse ~ Lizzie’s Laborufluvs A short story for the exhibition Disputed Bodies at Trinity Square Video, Toronto, curated by Patrick Cruz A not-too-dark letter for Agony Klub 's ongoing "death wish" series, modelled after Mike Kelley's art school entrance letter 2018 Flash fiction for BOMB Magazine A Kijiji ad for please teach me how to swim , an online project organized by Untitled Art Society, Calgary, curated by Jaclyn Bruneau and Natasha Chaykowski A book review for C Magazine Flash fiction for the online publication Anna Hawkins: Fall Fell Felt at Untitled Art Society, Calgary A poem in Fence , Issue 34 2017 A creative non-fiction essay for Colin Miner and Liza Eurich’s exhibition Semblance and Shadows Like Anxiety at Stride Gallery, Calgary A short story written for Kakaesque , a night of readings at Franz Kaka Gallery, Toronto, organized by Aryen Hoekstra Some flash fiction for BOMB Magazine
A text for Katie Lyle's solo show Why Do I Hear the Ocean in My Ear? at The Loon, Toronto
A review of Circo Zero for Bomb Magazine ’s end-of-year special, Looking Back on 2017: Theater & Performance
2016
A parallel fiction to accompany Derek Sullivan's show On Filling In at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto A text for Yi Xin Tong's show Strange New Health at Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
An exhibition (anti-)review of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon’s exhibition at the Western Front in Vancouver for Charcuterie , Issue 1
An essay for Laugh Magazine , Issue 2 An exhibition review for C Magazine , Issue 131 An essay reflecting on dust and the work of Liz Magor for The Capilano Review ’s digital chapbook ti-TCR 14 An artist feature for Mousse Conversations on dance and criticism with Jane Ellison, Deanna Peters, Alexa Mardon, and Brynn McNab for An Exact Vertigo at Unit/Pitt Projects, Vancouver A short story for Young Adult , Issue 1 A tiny suite of poems for the Somewhat Urgent Series An exhibition review of Kara Hansen’s Hypnic Jerk at Spare Room, Vancouver for The Bartleby Review 2015
A text accompanying my exhibition The Poet's Vacation at Index Gallery, Vancouver 2014
An interview for Decoy Magazine 2013 A review of Snežana Golubović, Márcio Carvalho & Steve Hubert at LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver for Decoy Magazine A review of Afer Finitude: Neil Campbell,
Hanne Darboven, Nicole Ondre,
Cheyney Tompson at the Or Gallery, Vancouver for C Magazine , Issue 119 A review of When Someone Strange is Calling You Home: Alejandro Cesarco, Toshie Takeuchi, Alison Tweedie at Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver for Decoy Magazine
An interview for C Magazine , Issue 117
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