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Justin Torres is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for his contributions to American literature, particularly in the realms of creative writing and Latinx literature. Torres has published short fiction in prestigious outlets such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Granta. His debut novel 'Animals' has been translated into fifteen languages and was adapted into a film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earning five Independent Spirit Award nominations. His second novel, 'Blackouts', is set to be published in fall 2023. Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has held fellowships at Stanford University's Wallace Stegner Fellowship program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award in 2012 and has been recognized with the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts and the VCU Cabell Novelist Award.
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