Background
Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent.
Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent.
He has a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Torres was also chosen by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011.
His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author).