This week we visit with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

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 The Capilano Review. By night, she drafts suspended scenarios and propositions. 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.

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For more on Jacquelyn: jacquelynzross.com

Jacquelyn's Books on the Bed:

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous

The Importance of Being Iceland by Eileen Myles

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

lettuce lettuce please go bad by Tiziana La Melia

The Cloud Notebook by Ada Smailbegović

Matt's gifts for Jacquelyn:

Little Bird by Claudia Ulloa Donoso (translated by Lily Meyer)

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt

Temporary by Hilary Leichter