https://jacquelynzross.com Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:23:16 +0000 https://jacquelynzross.com en https://jacquelynzross.com/Drawings-on-Yellow-Paper Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:23:16 +0000 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross https://jacquelynzross.com/Drawings-on-Yellow-Paper Drawings on Yellow PaperBy Katie Lyle &amp; Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross<img width="275" height="421" width_o="275" height_o="421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dc56f865ea4fcd1b8816237a8ffef837d3cd49ccb84e77c5bd71120cd15f619/Yellow-Drawings-Cover.png" data-mid="227592328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/275/i/7dc56f865ea4fcd1b8816237a8ffef837d3cd49ccb84e77c5bd71120cd15f619/Yellow-Drawings-Cover.png" /> “Now you’ve attached a folder of drawings—doodles you’re making on yellow copy paper—and the choreography transforms into a wavering line, brazen and strange, brave and uninvited. Are these the open-book thoughts of a woman contained? Drawings of cats, hats and body parts; horses, muscles, breasts and bugs…” Inspired by the drawings of Toronto artist Katie Lyle, this book features Lyle’s works alongside new writing by Jacquelyn Ross. Channelling dreams, teevee, teenage romance and the absurd, Drawings on Yellow Paper reflects on the relationship between drawing and writing (a conversation between friends). * Katie Lyle works in painting, drawing and performance. Selected projects include: G Gallery with Bridget Moser, Toronto; Evans Contemporary, Peterborough; Forest City Gallery with Shelby Wright, London ON (all 2016); Erin Stump Projects, Toronto; Model Project Space, Vancouver; Garden Gallery with Shelby Wright, Toronto; and The Nanaimo Art Gallery (all 2015). Lyle received her MFA from the University of Victoria (2009) and her BFA from Concordia University (2005). * Jacquelyn Ross is a writer and critic based in Toronto, Canada. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Mousse, C Magazine, The Capilano Review, artforum.com, and elsewhere, and her chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper. Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 148 pages, perfect-bound, with letterpress cover 5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches First printing, Edition of 125Second printing, Edition of 100 *OUT OF STOCK* Published by Blank Cheque Press September 2016 ISBN 978-1-927385-39-5 https://jacquelynzross.com/Mayonnaise Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:22:54 +0000 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross https://jacquelynzross.com/Mayonnaise Mayonnaise, A TravelogueBy Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross<img width="250" height="323" width_o="250" height_o="323" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5401b7573e7f72451ef401b2982013a7c46d518b77edc3647d5a99e1d3fc19/MAYONNAISE.png" data-mid="227592478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/250/i/ad5401b7573e7f72451ef401b2982013a7c46d518b77edc3647d5a99e1d3fc19/MAYONNAISE.png" /> “All my favourite writers are assholes.” Poems about San Francisco, Beat poetry, hotels, and condiments. * Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer and critic based between Vancouver and Toronto. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Mousse, C Magazine, The Capilano Review, artforum.com, and elsewhere, and her chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper. Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver &amp; Furrawn Press 56 pages, french-folded &amp; perfect-bound 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches Second Edition of 100 *OUT OF STOCK* Published by Blank Cheque Press April 2016 ISBN 978-1-927385-37-1 https://jacquelynzross.com/Wanted-Abject-Dreamers-for-the-Inner-Ear Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:59:15 +0000 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross https://jacquelynzross.com/Wanted-Abject-Dreamers-for-the-Inner-Ear <img width="1200" height="1126" width_o="1200" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfa806d8c175193a2b30cd0bb68f37aa817fce141d2fcdafce3895d46338c46f/conch.jpg" data-mid="68197678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfa806d8c175193a2b30cd0bb68f37aa817fce141d2fcdafce3895d46338c46f/conch.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae50166328d635e34d525392d24209ae83cac543e3e3e0c7c97dec068ec36169/golden-ratio.jpg" data-mid="68197687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/ae50166328d635e34d525392d24209ae83cac543e3e3e0c7c97dec068ec36169/golden-ratio.jpg" /> <img width="341" height="380" width_o="341" height_o="380" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78c592b109015dc0bf75edb8bc03fafe9519b1bb9f9f80877b6e60c10b24bf0c/croissant.jpg" data-mid="68197675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/341/i/78c592b109015dc0bf75edb8bc03fafe9519b1bb9f9f80877b6e60c10b24bf0c/croissant.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a178c97439a0f8d4f23e2c7539741132a032aa52ad42c4929541700000ca1d5/galaxy-ear.jpg" data-mid="68197686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a178c97439a0f8d4f23e2c7539741132a032aa52ad42c4929541700000ca1d5/galaxy-ear.jpg" /> <img width="944" height="847" width_o="944" height_o="847" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92c4ffd0e3c728a392d7c6af1e3e2f30b0832820d36852b4605fd75eff51c357/abjectdreamers-screenshot1.png" data-mid="68197932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/944/i/92c4ffd0e3c728a392d7c6af1e3e2f30b0832820d36852b4605fd75eff51c357/abjectdreamers-screenshot1.png" /> <img width="907" height="790" width_o="907" height_o="790" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/379ce066b05c48c425300ec0f0095568291f3072a9356a7c3f4886734c654071/abjectdreamers-screenshot2.png" data-mid="68198053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/907/i/379ce066b05c48c425300ec0f0095568291f3072a9356a7c3f4886734c654071/abjectdreamers-screenshot2.png" /> **WANTED: ABJECT DREAMERS FOR NEW STUDY OF THE INNER EAR $15/HR** Our laboratory is currently seeking participants for new research into the relationship between suggestive dreaming and interventions of the cochineal labyrinth. Alpha waves produced during states of intense relaxation or arousal will be measured alongside participants responses to a variety of sensual oracle intrusions in the form of objects that otherwise should not be there. Maybe this sounds sexy or scary but its not. What we want to do is first sprinkle a little bit of crushed gravel into the outermost groove of your ear and wait until you fall asleep, then monitor how the rocks effect your rapid hammers-- your electroamatory ego. For example, do you ever dream that there is a pet fly in your ear? If so, someone close to you may be trying to tell you something. The ideal participant will have submissive lobes, warm, low frequency drums and some experience with sleep deprivation and deep-brain structures. The study will start shallow, and then go deeper, very slowly, using the dampened stems of roses, until we touch the brain. In addition to gravel, we will introduce smoke, atonal music and tiny pieces of rubber (much less menacing than some other things people have found in their ears, i.e. a cricket, a popcorn kernel,&nbsp;a living dandelion...) Please note, however, that as far as foreign objects in the ear go, a person can put something there on purpose or it can arrive there on its own. **To apply, please respond detailing your interest in abject dreaming and any relevant experiences from birth to the present. Those selected for the study will be asked to wear comfortable clothing and bring something coil-shaped to eat. https://jacquelynzross.com/I-Just-Want-To-Talk-About-How-I-Just-Want-To-Dance-With-You-1 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:53:43 +0000 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross https://jacquelynzross.com/I-Just-Want-To-Talk-About-How-I-Just-Want-To-Dance-With-You-1 <img width="388" height="576" width_o="388" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd76bf98f7b2d544673d1c07778c574c8a1908bb89d4e250d03f65b70ef904c4/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.32.45-PM.png" data-mid="68717986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/388/i/fd76bf98f7b2d544673d1c07778c574c8a1908bb89d4e250d03f65b70ef904c4/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.32.45-PM.png" /> <img width="372" height="576" width_o="372" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67bb01676812353804677308cf58e4e77b4da2b5f04aaf87a2b5100f0ae456f2/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.32.58-PM.png" data-mid="68718008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/372/i/67bb01676812353804677308cf58e4e77b4da2b5f04aaf87a2b5100f0ae456f2/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.32.58-PM.png" /> <img width="371" height="576" width_o="371" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a708d21660b6fecc59b46f3a9afbc3495df5b7f52bd76e775d78b6d8c2f36dc/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.33.10-PM.png" data-mid="68718002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/371/i/8a708d21660b6fecc59b46f3a9afbc3495df5b7f52bd76e775d78b6d8c2f36dc/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.33.10-PM.png" /> <img width="375" height="576" width_o="375" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7ec93ab67b85a24b95fd2816da3f4af69dc02ccb05b44275851639bfe3a13bd/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.33.18-PM.png" data-mid="68718021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/375/i/d7ec93ab67b85a24b95fd2816da3f4af69dc02ccb05b44275851639bfe3a13bd/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-2.33.18-PM.png" /> I Just Want To Talk About How I Just Want To Dance With You A series of interview pamphlets on dance and criticism produced to accompany the project&nbsp;An Exact Vertigo, curated by Alexa Mardon and Brynn McNab, at Unit/Pitt Projects, Vancouver, March 14-April 10, 2016. Featuring conversations with Jane Ellison, Deanna Peters, Alexa Mardon, and Brynn McNab. ︎Read Pamphlet No. 1&nbsp; “Freedom Within A Form” with Jane Ellison ︎Read Pamphlet No. 2 “Comfily Clad in Adidas Sweats and Jackets” with Deanna Peters ︎Read Pamphlet No. 3“Alexa Mardon &amp; The Dance Appreciation Society”︎Read Pamphlet No. 4“Transformation into Language with Brynn McNab” &nbsp; https://jacquelynzross.com/Index Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:59:19 +0000 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross https://jacquelynzross.com/Index ︎ Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer and editor based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism have appeared in BOMB, C Mag, The Ex-Puritan, Fence, Mousse, and elsewhere, as well as in the chapbooks Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper (with Katie Lyle). By day, she works as an editor at&nbsp;The Capilano Review. By night, she drafts suspended scenarios and propositions.&nbsp;The Longest Way to Eat a Melon, her debut collection of fictions, was published by Sarabande Books in 2025. She is at work on a novel.&nbsp; <img width="1401" height="1892" width_o="1401" height_o="1892" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/059211f13fe0a860e8d99668bf6ddbb4093f746b4b7c050b4ebee5c93d4ac4bc/JZR_F_62-crop2.jpg" data-mid="219228528" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/059211f13fe0a860e8d99668bf6ddbb4093f746b4b7c050b4ebee5c93d4ac4bc/JZR_F_62-crop2.jpg" /> Photo by Maegan Hill-Carroll. Contact: jacquelynzross {at} gmail {dot} com Agency: K2 Literary Curriculum Vitae ︎ Instagram&nbsp;︎ Facebook&nbsp;︎ Publications <img width="1500" height="2214" width_o="1500" height_o="2214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfd775e8f60f04f1609a58124664b3b95ea05b018b4c06a21ecfd108c20ded3b/Melon-Cover_web.jpg" data-mid="223246070" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfd775e8f60f04f1609a58124664b3b95ea05b018b4c06a21ecfd108c20ded3b/Melon-Cover_web.jpg" />Published June 10, 2025 Sarabande Books Order direct from the publisher (US only)&nbsp;︎ Order from your nearest independent bookstore (US and Canada)&nbsp;︎ A cheeky debut of short fictions exploring the pitfalls and minor triumphs of the creative process.Equal parts melody and malaise, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charts the activities of a cast of speakers who all grapple in their own ways with what it takes to conjure a self in the midst of discordance. A brain argues with a non-brain about how to remain productive from a place of exhaustion; two supernaturally inclined twins named Han are separated at birth; and an emerging artist overwhelmed by possibility considers how best to transform a melon into a breakthrough work of art. Incorporating elements of fable, surrealism, satire, and art and cultural criticism, these stories have a playful peculiarity to them, an interweaving of self-deprecation and curiosity, of woe and hope, of absurdity and humanity. Reader, you will want to savor every bite. Read "A Brief History of Feeling" from The Longest Way to Eat a Melon in BOMB&nbsp;︎ Selected Press &amp; Written Interviews: ︎ “On the Experimentation of Failure: A Conversation with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross”: Interview with Casper Orr for The Ex-Puritan︎&nbsp;“The Longest Way to Eat a Melon”: Review by Nic Wilson for C Magazine ︎ “Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross by Fabiola Carranza”: Interview with Fabiola Carranza for BOMB Magazine︎ “On Book Cover Magic, List-Making and Mayonnaise, with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross”: Interview with Thalia Stopa for Scout Magazine︎“Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross’s The Longest Way to Eat a Melon”: Review by Salma Hussain for The Temz Review ︎ “The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere”: Editorial by Elisabeth Egan for The New York Times︎“Stories in the Abstract”: Review&nbsp;by Laura Moss for The BC Review Podcasts/Audio Interviews: ︎ On Books on the Bed in conversation&nbsp;with&nbsp;Matt Sawyer&nbsp;(May 2026) ︎ On The Walrus’s&nbsp;What Happened Next in conversation&nbsp;with Nathan Whitlock (May 2026) Praise for The Longest Way to Eat a Melon: “Inventive and charming, these stories offer a fishbowl view of what it is to be plunked into adulthood in these absurd, impossible times.” —Lucy Corin, author of The Swank Hotel “I've been a fan of Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross's&nbsp;writing for years and am so happy to see her debut collection cracking into the world. The stories in The Longest Way to Eat a Melon, like most of my favorite stories, feel as if they've been written from some alternate dimension just to the side of our own—they're strange and smart and funny and true. Read them, and then we can all dream against capitalism together.” —Danielle Dutton, author of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other "The turns in Ross’s smart, tender, darkly hilarious narratives are dazzling. At times we sail right off the road, and the beautiful thing about this book is, we survive it every time. These are fables for the future, full of hope." —River Halen, author of Dream Rooms "A richly layered text imbued with wit and charm. Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is an artist who breaks the mundanity of everyday life into artifacts. I was brought to the center of a gallery where curated notes of familiarity, the thoughts beneath my thoughts, guided me to reinterpret all that was around me. The Longest Way to Eat a Melon transforms everydayness into a metaphor. The meaning of life and its multitudes dance quietly underneath." —Sheung-King, author of Batshit Seven "Despite claiming, somewhere in this impeccable and finely-pitched, completely canny madness, that there is 'no such thing as an original thought,' these pages are brimming-over with them. Think ragers at the end of the world, except instead of that tired old iceberg and decks full of ill-fated violins,&nbsp;we have cranes dropping giant shits;&nbsp;we have noodles and messed up pottery mosaics;&nbsp;we have&nbsp;twins (or brains) imploding at the moment of long-sought, impossible contact;&nbsp;and&nbsp;melon-eating as political theater,&nbsp;a pair of prolific snail neurons,&nbsp;disintegrating images of peaches and rain. Make no mistake—these are fictions (strange, pulsing, sculptural, committed, extrareal) of resistance. Ross is burning with new and dissident questions and never lets up. At its ecstatic core, this is a book about writing and language: 'the most accessible kind of magic.' Get ready to be not just transformed but transduced. The medium is the message and the messages are urgent and already incandescently ahead of us." —Jess Arndt, author of Large Animals Chapbooks <img width="275" height="421" width_o="275" height_o="421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dc56f865ea4fcd1b8816237a8ffef837d3cd49ccb84e77c5bd71120cd15f619/Yellow-Drawings-Cover.png" data-mid="68045074" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/275/i/7dc56f865ea4fcd1b8816237a8ffef837d3cd49ccb84e77c5bd71120cd15f619/Yellow-Drawings-Cover.png" /> <img width="433" height="560" width_o="433" height_o="560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/212c6c067f69c7998b9dcba3fef7fb3d7cfdf5a64bf6e784119e5011b274eb1c/MAYONNAISE.png" data-mid="68045354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/433/i/212c6c067f69c7998b9dcba3fef7fb3d7cfdf5a64bf6e784119e5011b274eb1c/MAYONNAISE.png" /> Self-published in 2016 by Blank Cheque Press, a small press I ran out of my home/studio between Vancouver and Toronto from 2015-2020 (lately out of print) Other Selected Writing2025~ Art Worker Diary A creative response to the Winter 2013-14 issue of&nbsp;Fuse Magazine&nbsp;for the 221A Fellowship Library’s&nbsp;Noted* guest interpretation series 2024~ On Rochelle Goldberg’s Sun Moon StarsA review of Rachelle Goldberg’s show at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver for C Mag ~ More Than Unpaid Work: On Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s M*****A review of Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s show at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver for Le Chauffage 2023 ~ Night Work Selections from a new long-form project published in Asia Art Archive’s online journal Like a Fever ~ A Woman Suffering Short story in the new issue of Echolocation Magazine, Toronto ~ baby voices Poem written to accompany the group exhibition, Inside voices, please at nap projects, Vancouver 2022~ Five Cricket Songs (after Umico Niwa) Poems written to accompany Umico Niwa’s exhibition, Neighbourly Pest, at Tilling, Montréal ~ soothsay&nbsp;Exhibition text for Gabi Dao &amp; geetha thurairajah at Centre Clark, Montréal 2021~ Elementary Brioche Short story for Minority Vibration, a special issue of&nbsp;The Puritan, guest-edited by Sheung-King ~ from Fifty Times You Leave Your Lover Poetic response to Mira Dayal’s artist book, Hair Biography, for the ee! ~ Laurie Kang: Story of the GutCatalogue essay to accompany the exhibition Unfixed: Laurie Kang and Chris Curreri at Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver 2020 ~ Napping Against Capitalism Short story for the group exhibition The Pandemic is a Portal at SFU Galleries, Vancouver ~ The Perfect Crime Fictional accompaniment to Erdem Taşdelen's public billboard project, Vicissitudes, at Mercer Union, Toronto 2019 ~ Cute, Good-Looking, Funny, SweetEssay on the kind of art that is suspiciously easy to digest for Mousse ~ Lizzie’s LaborufluvsShort story for the exhibition Disputed Bodies at Trinity Square Video, Toronto~ Four Poems Light text accoutrements for Sorry, I’m Busy, an exhibition of Capricorn artists at Support Projects, London, Ontario 2018~ A Brief History of Feeling Flash fiction for BOMB Magazine ~ "Wanted: Abject Dreamers for New Study of the Inner Ear $15/hr"A Kijiji ad for please teach me how to swim, an online project organized by Untitled Art Society, Calgary ~ The Picture FilesFlash fiction for the virtual artist project&nbsp;Anna Hawkins: Fall Fell Felt hosted by&nbsp;Untitled Art Society, Calgary ~ R.O.Y.G.B.I.V.A poem in Fence 2017 ~ Twelve ForecastsMore flash fiction for BOMB Magazine~ How to Look at an Image, or a Black Hole Essay accompanying the exhibition Semblance &amp; Shadows Like Anxiety by Liza Eurich and Colin Miner at Stride Gallery, Calgary ~ Obliteration Ritual for Katie Lyle Fictional portrait for Katie Lyle’s exhibition&nbsp;Why Do I Hear the Ocean in My Ear? at The Loon, Toronto 2016 ~ Strange New Health Fiction for the exhibition Strange New Health by Yi Xin Tong at Katzman Contemporary, Toronto~ How To Tame A Fly, or: Some Unsolicited Commentary on Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon’s ‘A Space for Looking is a Space for Listening’ Exhibition review for Charcuterie ~ Ieva Miseviciute: Character Studies of Primeval Life Forms Artist feature for Mousse ~ Everybody’s Talking about Bone BrothEssay for Laugh Magazine, RCA London ~ Allison Hrabluik: The SplitsExhibition review for C Magazine ~ East Georgia’s Shameless LoiterersPoem for the Somewhat Urgent Series, edited by Steffanie Ling ~ Mystery DustAn essay on the work of Liz Magor for The Capilano Review’s digital chapbook series&nbsp;ti-TCR~ I Just Want To Talk About How I Just Want To Dance With You A series of pamphlets on dance and criticism organized by Alexa Mardon and Brynn McNab at Unit/Pitt Projects, Vancouver ~ Hygiene Tricks &amp; The People At SchickReview of the exhibition Hypnic Jerk by Kara Hansen for The Bartleby Review