Jess Row
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Jess Row is a writer who published a collection of short stories called The Train to Lo Wu. Born in 1974 in Washington, D.C., 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. He has received many awards for his fiction, among them the Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.
Jess Row currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, Sonya Posmentier. He is an assistant professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.
