# Jess Row

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American short story writer, novelist, and professor

Jess Row Row in 2019 Born (1974-10-25) October 25, 1974 (age 51) Washington, D.C., U.S. Occupation Writer professor literary critic Education B.A., Yale University (1997) M.F.A., University of Michigan (2001) Genre American literature

**Jess Row** (born 1974 in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.)) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.

## Early life

He received a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in English from [Yale University](/source/Yale_University)[1] in 1997. He later taught English in [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) for two years. He completed his [Master of Fine Arts](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts) in creative writing at the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan)[1] in 2001.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Career

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

His stories have appeared in various publications, including *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*,[3] *[Harvard Review](/source/Harvard_Review), Ploughshares*,[4] *Granta*,[5] *Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal* and the *[Best American Short Stories](/source/Best_American_Short_Stories)* of [2001](/source/Best_American_Short_Stories_2001) and [2003](/source/Best_American_Short_Stories_2003).[6]

Row at the Texas Book Festival in [Austin, Texas](/source/Austin%2C_Texas) in 2014

He was an associate professor of English at [The College of New Jersey](/source/The_College_of_New_Jersey) and as of 2021 teaches at [New York University](/source/New_York_University) as a professor of English and used to teach in the Writing Program at [Vermont College of Fine Arts](/source/Vermont_College_of_Fine_Arts).[6] He is also a teacher and student of [Zen Buddhism](/source/Zen_Buddhism).

## Awards

He has received many awards for his fiction, among them a [Whiting Award](/source/Whiting_Awards), a [Pushcart Prize](/source/Pushcart_Prize), and a fellowship from the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/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

He currently resides in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.

## Works

### Books

- *[The Train to Lo Wu](/source/The_Train_to_Lo_Wu)*. The Dial Press. 2005. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-38533-789-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-38533-789-2). - "Heaven Lake," Reprinted from *Harvard Review* 22, Spring 2002

- *Nobody Ever Gets Lost*. FiveChapters Books. 2011. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-98293-922-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-98293-922-2).

- *Your Face In Mine*. Riverhead Books. 2014. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59448-834-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59448-834-4).

- *White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination*. Graywolf Press. 2019. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1555978327](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1555978327).

- *The New Earth.* HyperCollins books. 2023. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-06-240065-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-240065-9).

### Short stories

- ["The Answer"](https://granta.com/the-answer/). *Granta* (97: Best of Young American Novelists 2). Spring 2007.

- ["Amritsar"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/08/amritsar/306904/). *The Atlantic*. Fiction Issue. 2008.

- "The Call of Blood". *Harvard Review*. **38**. Harvard University. Spring 2010.

- ["The World in Flames"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013507/http://www.fivechapters.com/2011/the-world-in-flames/). *FiveChapters*. 2011. Archived from [the original](http://www.fivechapters.com/2011/the-world-in-flames/) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

### Articles and essays

- ["Portrait of My Father"](https://granta.com/portrait-of-my-father-row/). *Granta*. 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

- ["A Confession"](https://granta.com/a-confession/). *Granta* (128: American Wild). Autumn 2013. (Subscription Required)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-English_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-English_1-1) ["Jess Row | English"](https://english.tcnj.edu/faculty-staff/jess-row/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [*Guernica*](https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/we-wear-the-mask/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Jess Row"](http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jess-row). *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Pshares.org](http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1973)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [*Granta* Best of Young American Novelists 2](http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Jess-Row) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090915234349/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Jess-Row) 2009-09-15 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VC_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VC_6-1) [Vermont College of Fine Arts](http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/223) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20091120174230/http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/223) 2009-11-20 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["2018 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Jess Row"](https://www.whiting.org/content/jess-row-0#/). *Whiting.org*.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Jess Row](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jess_Row).

- [Author's Official Website](http://www.jessrow.com)

- [Kyoto Journal magazine](http://www.kyotojournal.org)

- [Profile at The Whiting Foundation](http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jess-row#/)

- [Review of *The Train to Lo Wu* at WaterBridge Review](http://www.waterbridgereview.org/032006/rvw_train_lowu.php)

- [Review of *Your Face in Mine* at The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/books/jess-rows-your-face-in-mine-a-novel-about-changing-race.html)

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