Jess row biography

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Jess Row is the author of the story collections The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. Named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007, he has won two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O. Henry Prize, and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories three times. He lives in New York and teaches at the College of New Jersey.

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American short story writer, novelist, and professor

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^[1] 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^[1] in 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Career

His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.^[2]

His stories have appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker,^[3]Harvard Review, Ploughshares,^[4]Granta,^[5]Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories of 2001 and 2003.^[6]

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.^[6] 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

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