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

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.

[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.

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