Jess Row

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Jess Row
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Jess Row at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1974-10-25) October 25, 1974 (age 49)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation Writer, professor, literary Critic
Alma mater Yale University, University of Michigan
Genre American literature

Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer and novelist.

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.[citation needed]

Career

His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.[1]

His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Ploughshares,[2] Granta,[3] Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.[4]

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.[4] 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.

Works

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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