Jess Row's first book, The Train to Lo Wu, a collection of short stories set in Hong Kong, was published in 2005; in 2006 it was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize. In 2007 he was named a “Best Young American Novelist” by Granta. His second collection of stories, Nobody Ever Gets Lost, was published by FiveChapters Books in February 2011. His first novel, Your Face in Mine, was published by Riverhead Books in August 2014.

His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Granta, American Short Fiction, Threepenny Review,Ontario Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere, have been anthologized three times in The Best American Short Stories and have won two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O. Henry Award. He has also received an NEA fellowship in fiction and a Whiting Writers Award. His nonfiction and criticism appear often in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Threepenny Review, and Boston Review, among other venues.

Jess Row is an associate professor of English at The College of New Jersey and a member of the international faculty of the MFA program at the City University of Hong Kong. A student of Zen for twenty years, he is an ordained dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen.

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