The Answer

Jess Row was born in 1974 in Washington, DC. After graduating from Yale, he taught English for two years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and in 2001 received an MFA from the University of Michigan. 'The Train to Lo Wu', his first collection of stories, is published by Dial Press.The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fiction fellowship, he is currently at work on a novel and a new short story collection, of which the piece in this issue is the title story. Row lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, Sonya Posmentier, and is a professor in the English department at the College of New Jersey. A long-time student of Zen Buddhism, he was ordained a dharma teacher by the Kwan Um School of Zen in 2004.