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

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]}

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.

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]

He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sonya Posmentier and his two children.

• 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.
• The New Earth. HyperCollins books. 2023. ISBN 978-0-06-240065-9.

• “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.

• “Portrait of My Father”. Granta. 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
• “A Confession”. Granta (128: American Wild). Autumn 2013. (Subscription Required)

• 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