BIO

Justin Torres is the author of the novel Blackouts. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New YorkerHarper’sGrantaTin HouseThe Washington Post, LA Times Image Magazine, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at UCLA. 

RECENT WRITING

Some recent writing includes an interview with photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya and a review of novelist Fernanda Melchor’s Paradais. Other writings can be found in the archive.

CONTACT

LITERARY AGENT

Jin Auh
jauh@wylieagency.com

The Wylie Agency LLC

250 West 57th St, Ste. 2114
New York, N. Y. 10107
212-246-0069

SPEAKING INQUIRIES

torresbooking@gmail.com

PUBLICISTS

Brian Gittis
brian.gittis@fsgbooks.com

Lauren Roberts
lauren.roberts@fsgbooks.com
212-741-6900