Jess Row
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 Jess Row at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | October 25, 1974 |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor, and Literary Critic |
| Alma mater | 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 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.
Career
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.[5] He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.
Awards
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.
Works
- The Train To Lo Wu (2005)
- Nobody Ever Gets Lost (2010)
- Your Face In Mine (2014)
References
External links
- Author's Official Website
- Kyoto Journal magazine
- Review of The Train to Lo Wu at WaterBridge Review
- Review of Your Face in Mine at The New York Times
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