Justin Torres

Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, and the Southern California Book Award. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and Stanford’s Wallace Stegner program. His first novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was a national bestseller, and was adapted into a feature film. Collectively, his novels have been translated into seventeen languages. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, LA Times Image Magazine, and Best American Essays. He lives Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.