Alma mater University of Michigan Name Jess Row Awards Whiting Awards | Genre American literature Role Short story writer | |
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Born October 25, 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-10-25 ) Occupation Writer, professor, literary Critic Books Your Face in Mine, The Train to Lo Wu Education University of Michigan, Yale University | ||
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Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer and novelist.
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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.
His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.
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. 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.