Jess Row
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| Born | October 25, 1974 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Education | B.A., Yale University (1997) M.F.A., University of Michigan (2001) |
| Genre | American literature |
Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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. In 2018, he received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete his book White Flights: Race, Fiction and the American Imagination. Most notably, Professor Row won the Guggenheim Fellowship.[7]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.
Works
[edit | edit source]Books
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- "Heaven Lake," Reprinted from Harvard Review 22, Spring 2002
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Short stories
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Articles and essays
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References
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- ^ Guernica
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- ^ Pshares.org
- ^ Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2 Archived 2009-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Vermont College of Fine Arts Archived 2009-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
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External links
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- Author's Official Website
- Kyoto Journal magazine
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- 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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