Jessica Baran is a poet, curator, critic and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrera Projects and projects+gallery.

The author of three poetry collections - most recently "Common Sense" (Lost Roads Press, 2016) -  she is the former art writer for the Riverfront Times(2008-2012), Assistant Director of White Flag Projects (2008-2011), and Director of fort gondo compound for the arts (2012-2016). She also lectures intermittently at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art and St. Louis University’s Prison Arts & Education program.

She holds a B.A. in visual art from Columbia University, NY and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis – where she lives with poet Nathaniel Farrell and their dog Benny.

The artist project mentioned in the interview by Catalina Ouyang's can be seen here: anotherdocument.info

"Overview is a place," March 6 - 12, 2018 at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York City). Artists included: Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Addoley Dzegede, Jen Everett, Kahlil Irving, Basil Kincaid, Katherine Simone Reynolds, WORK/PLAY. Image: Samuel Morgan.

"XOXO," February 8 – March 10, 2018 at the Des Lee Gallery (St. Louis, MO). Group exhibition including work by Zoe Buckman, Nicole Eisenman, Fantich & Young, Chantal Jaffe, Terence Koh, Marilyn Minter, Toyin Odutola, Mickalene Thomas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. Image: James Byard.