Jess Row
{{Short description|American short story writer, novelist, and professor}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|25|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| education = B.A., Yale University (1997)
M.F.A., University of Michigan (2001)
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- professor
- literary critic
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| genre = American literature
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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{{Cite web|url=https://english.tcnj.edu/faculty-staff/jess-row/|title=Jess Row {{pipe}} English}} 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 in 2001.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}
Career
His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.[https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/we-wear-the-mask/ Guernica]
His stories have appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jess-row|title=Jess Row|magazine=The New Yorker }} Harvard Review, Ploughshares,[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1973 Pshares.org] Granta,[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 }} Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories of 2001 and 2003.[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 }}
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. 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.{{cite web |title=2018 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Jess Row |url=https://www.whiting.org/content/jess-row-0#/ |website=Whiting.org}}
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
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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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Category:American Zen Buddhists
Category:Writers from New Jersey
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:The College of New Jersey faculty
Category:Writers from Washington, D.C.