1. Justin Torres won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical debut novel We the Animals, which was an Edmund White Award finalist and an NAACP Image Award for Debut Author nominee.
10 Facts About Justin Torres
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Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent.
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Justin Torres was raised in Baldwinsville, New York, as the youngest of three brothers.
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Justin Torres spent a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, until a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School, which motivated him to start writing seriously.
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In 2010, Justin Torres received his master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Justin Torres was a recipient of the Rolon Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists.
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Justin Torres is a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan.
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Justin Torres is currently an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Justin Torres has published short fiction for The New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications, as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.
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Justin Torres' first novel, We the Animals, won an Indies Choice Book Awards and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and an NAACP Image Award nominee.