Justin Torres

Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel ''We the Animals'' which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee. ''We the Animals'' has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Torres' second novel, ''Blackouts'', won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. Provided by Wikipedia