{{Short description|American short story writer, novelist, and professor}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Jess Row | image = Matsunaga-jess-row-3282 (cropped).jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Row in 2019 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|25|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = B.A., [[Yale University]] (1997)<br>M.F.A., [[University of Michigan]] (2001) | occupation = {{flatlist| * Writer * professor * literary critic }} | genre = [[American literature]] | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = }}
'''Jess Row''' (born 1974 in [[Washington, D.C.]]) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.
==Early life== He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English from [[Yale University]]<ref name="English">{{Cite web|url=https://english.tcnj.edu/faculty-staff/jess-row/|title=Jess Row {{pipe}} English}}</ref> 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]]<ref name="English"/> in 2001.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
==Career== His debut novel ''Your Face in Mine'' (Riverhead, 2014) explored [[ethnic plastic surgery|racial reassignment surgery]] against the backdrop of post-industrial [[Baltimore]].<ref>[https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/we-wear-the-mask/ ''Guernica'']</ref>
His stories have appeared in various publications, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jess-row|title=Jess Row|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] }}</ref> ''[[Harvard Review]], Ploughshares'',<ref>[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1973 Pshares.org]</ref> ''Granta'',<ref>[http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Jess-Row ''Granta'' Best of Young American Novelists 2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915234349/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Jess-Row |date=2009-09-15 }}</ref> ''Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal'' and the ''[[Best American Short Stories]]'' of [[Best American Short Stories 2001|2001]] and [[Best American Short Stories 2003|2003]].<ref name=VC>[http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/223 Vermont College of Fine Arts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120174230/http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/223 |date=2009-11-20 }}</ref> [[File:Jess row 2014.jpg|thumb|225x225px|Row at the Texas Book Festival in [[Austin, Texas]] in 2014]] 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]].<ref name=VC/> He is also a teacher and student of [[Zen Buddhism]].
==Awards== He has received many awards for his fiction, among them a [[Whiting Awards|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.''<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Jess Row |url=https://www.whiting.org/content/jess-row-0#/ |website=Whiting.org}}</ref>
==Personal life== He currently resides in [[New York City]] with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.
==Works==
===Books=== *{{cite book |date=2005 |title=[[The Train to Lo Wu]] |publisher=The Dial Press |isbn=978-0-38533-789-2}} **"Heaven Lake," Reprinted from ''Harvard Review'' 22, Spring 2002 *{{cite book |date=2011 |title=Nobody Ever Gets Lost |publisher=FiveChapters Books |isbn=978-0-98293-922-2}} *{{cite book |date=2014 |title=Your Face In Mine |publisher=Riverhead Books |isbn=978-1-59448-834-4}} *{{cite book |title=White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination |date=2019 |publisher=Graywolf Press |isbn=978-1555978327}} *''The New Earth.'' HyperCollins books. 2023. {{ISBN|978-0-06-240065-9}}.
===Short stories=== *{{cite journal |date=Spring 2007 |title=The Answer |url=https://granta.com/the-answer/ |journal=Granta |issue=97: Best of Young American Novelists 2 }} *{{cite journal |date=2008 |title=Amritsar |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/08/amritsar/306904/ |journal=The Atlantic |volume=Fiction Issue }} *{{cite journal |date=Spring 2010 |title=The Call of Blood |journal=Harvard Review |volume=38 |publisher=Harvard University }} *{{cite web |url=http://www.fivechapters.com/2011/the-world-in-flames/ |title=The World in Flames |date=2011 |website=FiveChapters |access-date=26 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013507/http://www.fivechapters.com/2011/the-world-in-flames/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}
===Articles and essays=== *{{cite web |url=https://granta.com/portrait-of-my-father-row/ |title=Portrait of My Father |date=2009 |website=Granta |access-date=29 September 2015}} *{{cite journal |date=Autumn 2013 |title=A Confession |url=https://granta.com/a-confession/ |journal=Granta |issue=128: American Wild }} (Subscription Required)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Jess Row}} *[http://www.jessrow.com Author's Official Website] *[http://www.kyotojournal.org Kyoto Journal magazine] *[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jess-row#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation] *[http://www.waterbridgereview.org/032006/rvw_train_lowu.php Review of ''The Train to Lo Wu'' at WaterBridge Review] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/books/jess-rows-your-face-in-mine-a-novel-about-changing-race.html Review of ''Your Face in Mine'' at The New York Times]
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