edited books
Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs ed. Skylah Hearn, Tempestt Hazel and Sarah Ross. Sojourners for Justice Press. 2021
Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex ed. Aaron Hughes, Sarah Ross and Tara Betts. Hat & Beard Press. 2021
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom ed. Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth Richie and Sarah Ross. Haymarket Press. 2018
Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions ed. Rozalinda Borcilla, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross. White Wire Studio. 2012
edited magazine
Poetry ed. Tara Betts, Joshua Bennett and Sarah Ross. I also wrote an introduction to the visual work in the magazine titled” Imagining the Radical Beauty of Freedom“. 2021
book chapters
“The Pedagogy of Dr. Burroughs” in Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs ed. Skylah Hearn, Tempestt Hazel and Sarah Ross. Sojourners for Justice Press. 2021
“Afterword” in Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex ed. Aaron Hughes, Sarah Ross and Tara Betts. Hat & Beard Press. 2021
“Between the Bottomlands to the World: An Abbreviated Glossary of Experiences in and Around Beardstown, IL” with Ryan Griffis in Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions ed. Rozalinda Borcilla, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross. White Wire Studio. 2012
“Due Time” wtih Fereshteh Toosi and Damon Locks in Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art ed. Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass and Social Practice Queens, Allworth Press. 2018
“And what happens to you concerns us here: Imaginings for a (new) Prison Arts Movement” with Erica Meiners in Art Against the Law ed. Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago Press. 2015. and in Walls Turned Sideways ed. Risa Puleo, Name Publications. 2018
“Arts of Resistance” with Ryan Griffis in Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World. ed. Faranak Miraftab, David Wilson and Ken Salo. Routledge Press. 2015
“The Audacity of Desperation: Notes on an Evolving Stage” with Jessica Lawless in A Call to Farms. Heavy-Duty Press. 2008
selected articles
“Due Time” with Erica Meiners, Fereshteh Toosi, et al. Republished for the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2019
“Supercuts: Educators Share sequences from classes they’ve taught and found to be impacting” Critical Practice #4, 2017
“Siting Expositions: Vancouver” Stories in Reserve, Vol. 1, 2010
“in a most dangerous manner…” ed. with Steven Lam. 9th Letter, Vol. 7 Number 3. Summer, 2010
“Living in Almost-Places“. Shifter Magazine. Issue 11, 2008
selected interviews
“Survey of White Artists” with Latham Zearfoss and Ruby T. Monday Journal. Vol. 4, ed Danny Giles. March 2020
“Reflecting on the Let Our People Go: Week of Action” with Aaron Hughes for the Just Seeds blog. 2020
“Works of Justice: Sarah Ross on Art Making and Incarceration.” With Giselle Robledo for PEN America Prison and Justice and Writing Program, 2019
“Interview with Sarah Ross.” with Gozie Ojini for Graphite Journal, 2019
“Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project.” with Heath Schultz for Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and reprinted for Transactions Publications, 2015
“Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross of the Audacity of Desperation” with Anjali Taneja, LAist, 2008
selected bibliography
“Designed Space in Between Bodies” by Elisa Tangheroni. STUDIO magazine n°14. 2018
“A Critical Phenomenology of Dwelling in Carceral Space” by Lisa Guenther. Log Journal Issue 42. 2018
Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless by Robert Rosenberger. University of Minnesota Press, 2017
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion by Interboro (Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore) published by Actar. 2017
Unpleasant Design. Gordan Savicic and Selena Savic eds. Book. Belgrade, 2013
Actions: What You Can Do With the City by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds. published by Canadian Center for Architecture. SUN. 2008
Heartland by Charles Esche, Kerstin Niemann and Stephanie Smith, eds. published by Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. 2009
selected reviews
“What are Human Rights to the Incarcerated” by Kerry Cardoza. Chicago Reader. April 7, 2021.
“Learning in Lockdown: Education in IL Prisons Under COVID” by Lucia Geng. Southside Weekly. Jan 20, 2021
“The Revolution Starts Here: Chicagoans Imagining a More Just World” by Kerry Cardoza. New City. Nov. 25, 2020
“Artists Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons” by Patrick Conway. The Arts Fuse. May 3, 2020
“Why Chicago needs a memorial to Jon Burge’s torture victims” by Noah Belantsky Mic. May 6, 2020
“The Long Term uses art to connect Stateville prisoners to the outside world.” by Merissa De La Cerda. Chicago Reader. Sept. 26, 2018
“To What Ends Do We Conquer Nature?: A Review of ‘The Earth Will Not Abide’ at Gallery 400.” by Stephen Eiseman, Newcity Art, May 5, 2017
“Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture.” by Sean Real. 99% Invisible podcast. KALW San Francisco public radio. July 5, 2016
“The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile: Think your city doesn’t like you? You’re right.” by Ella Morton. Atlas Obscura. May 5, 2016
“Weight of Rage.” by Elliot Reichert. New City, Feb. 18, 2016