Laurence Ross

Laurence Ross

Laurence Ross is a Baltimore-based writer and educator. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama where he served as the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Black Warrior Review. His essays have been published in magazines and literary journals such as Pelican Bomb, The Georgia Review, Brevity, and The Huffington Post. In 2014, Ross served as the Director of P.3Writes, an educational program in conjunction with U.S. Art Triennial Prospect New Orleans. In 2020, he curated his first visual art exhibition at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, WI. Contact: [email protected]

Stories by Laurence Ross
A Neurosurgeon’s Dedication to the Metaphor-Making Machine

Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.

Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)

Baltimore sculptor Elliot Doughtie has thought a lot about locker rooms and other liminal spaces in which one’s identity is in flux.

A Review of Walk a Mile in My Dreams, Joyce Scott's 50-year retrospective now on view at the BMA

Surveying Scott’s oeuvre, one can see she isn’t preoccupied by death; Scott is preoccupied by the ways in which we choose to live—and treat each other in life.

The Me Before The War No Longer Exists, A Photographic Series

There is an interesting juxtaposition between the medium of tintype and the subject of refugees. Volkova’s project aims to fix, however momentarily, a population defined by movement—people dislocated by war.