| Jess Row | |
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| Born | October 25, 1974 |
| Occupation | writer, professor, and literary critic |
| Genres | American literature |
Jess Row (born 1974 Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer.
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He attended Yale University and graduated in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years before completing his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan in 2001.
His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Ploughshares,[1] Granta,[2] Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.[3]
He currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, Sonya Posmentier. He is an assistant professor of English at The College of New Jersey and teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program.[4] He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.
He has received many awards for his fiction, among them the Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.