Jess Row is the author of the novels The New Earth (HarperCollins Publishers) and Your Face in Mine (Penguin Publishing Group), a collection of essays, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Graywolf Press), and two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu (Dell Publishing) and Nobody Ever Gets Lost (FiveChapters Books). His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Tin House, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Granta, n+1, and elsewhere, has been anthologized three times in The Best American Short Stories, and has won two Pushcart Prizes and a PEN/O. Henry Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA fellowship in fiction, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. In 2007, he was named a “Best Young American Novelist” by Granta. His nonfiction and criticism appear often in the New Yorker, the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Threepenny Review, and Boston Review, among other venues. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program in the Department of English at NYU and is an ordained senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He lives in New York City and Plainfield, Vermont.