Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.
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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 |
Early life edit
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
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
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
He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.
Works edit
Books edit
- The Train to Lo Wu. The Dial Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-38533-789-2.
- "Heaven Lake," Reprinted from Harvard Review 22, Spring 2002
- Nobody Ever Gets Lost. FiveChapters Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-98293-922-2.
- Your Face In Mine. Riverhead Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59448-834-4.
- White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination. Graywolf Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1555978327.
Short stories edit
- "The Answer". Granta (97: Best of Young American Novelists 2). Spring 2007.
- "Amritsar". The Atlantic. Fiction Issue. 2008.
- "The Call of Blood". Harvard Review. 38. Harvard University. Spring 2010.
- "The World in Flames". FiveChapters. 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
Articles and essays edit
- "Portrait of My Father". Granta. 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- "A Confession". Granta (128: American Wild). Autumn 2013. (Subscription Required)
References edit
- ^ a b "Jess Row | English".
- ^ Guernica
- ^ "Jess Row". The New Yorker.
- ^ 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
- ^ "2018 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Jess Row". Whiting.org.
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