Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.
Early life He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Michigan in 2001.
Career His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.Guernica
His stories have appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Harvard Review, Ploughshares,Pshares.org Granta,Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2 Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories of 2001 and 2003.Vermont College of Fine Arts
He was an associate professor of English at The College of New Jersey and as of 2021 teaches at New York University as a professor of English and used to teach in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.
Awards He has received many awards for his fiction, among them a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018, he received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete his book White Flights: Race, Fiction and the American Imagination. Most notably, Professor Row won the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Personal life He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.
Works
Books
"Heaven Lake," Reprinted from Harvard Review 22, Spring 2002
The New Earth. HyperCollins books. 2023. .
Short stories
Articles and essays
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References
External links
Author's Official Website Kyoto Journal magazine Profile at The Whiting Foundation Review of The Train to Lo Wu at WaterBridge Review Review of Your Face in Mine at The New York Times