Justin Torres

Justin Torres (born 1980) is an acclaimed American–Puerto Rican novelist and associate professor of English at UCLA, best known for his debut We the Animals (2011)—a semi‑autobiographical coming‑of‑age tale that became a national bestseller and was adapted into a Sundance‑prizewinning film  . His sophomore novel Blackouts (2023) won the National Book Award for Fiction, weaving […]