Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine (2014) and two collections of short stories, Nobody Ever Gets Lost (2011) and The Train to Lo Wu (2005). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Tin House, and many other venues, and he's a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, and Boston Review. He's received a Whiting Writers Award and an NEA Fellowship, and is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017-18. He is currently working on a collection of essays about race and the American imagination, White Flights, to be published by Graywolf in 2019. An associate professor of English at the College of New Jersey, he was a founding faculty member of the short-lived (and much mourned) City University of Hong Kong MFA program (2011-2016), and most recently was a visiting professor at NYU.