Jess Row

Jess Row
Jess Row at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1974-10-25) October 25, 1974 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Writer, professor, literary Critic
Alma mater	Yale University, University of Michigan
Genre	American literature

Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Early life

He graduated from Yale University in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years before completing his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan in 2001.

His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.^[1]

His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Ploughshares,^[2] Granta,^[3] Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.^[4]

He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier. He is an assistant professor of English at The College of New Jersey and teaches in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[4] He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.

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.

The Train to Lo Wu. The Dial Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-38533-789-2.
- "Heaven Lake," Reprinted from Harvard Review 22, Spring 2002
Nobody Ever Gets Lost. FiveChapters Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-98293-922-2.
Your Face In Mine. Riverhead Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59448-834-4.

"Portrait of My Father". Granta. 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
"A Confession". Granta (128: American Wild). Autumn 2013. (Subscription Required)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 56001723

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