Jessica Lynne is a writer, editor, and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times,The Nation, and Oxford American. Jessica is a recipient of a 2025 Rabkin Prize which celebrates the creative and intellectual contributions of visual arts writers, the inaugural recipient of the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association, and a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Jessica holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been supported by Art Omi, Tin House, and The Carolyn Moore Writers House. She has taught writing and lectured at institutions such as Colorado College, Northwestern University, The New School, and Yale School of Art, and was the host of the limited series podcast, Harlem is Everywhere.
She is represented by Erika Stevens at Salky Literary Management.