Jess Row
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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 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
He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.
Works
Books
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Train to Lo Wu. The Dial Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-38533-789-2.
- "Heaven Lake," Reprinted from Harvard Review 22, Spring 2002
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nobody Ever Gets Lost. FiveChapters Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-98293-922-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Your Face In Mine. Riverhead Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59448-834-4.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination. Graywolf Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1555978327.
- The New Earth. HyperCollins books. 2023. Template:ISBN.
Short stories
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Answer". Granta (97: Best of Young American Novelists 2). Spring 2007.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Amritsar". The Atlantic. Fiction Issue. 2008.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Call of Blood". Harvard Review. 38. Harvard University. Spring 2010.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The World in Flames". FiveChapters. 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
Articles and essays
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Portrait of My Father". Granta. 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Confession". Granta (128: American Wild). Autumn 2013. (Subscription Required)
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jess Row | English".
- ^ Guernica
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jess Row". The New Yorker.
- ^ Pshares.org
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- ^ a b Vermont College of Fine Arts Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2018 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Jess Row". Whiting.org.
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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