Justin Torres

Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), which was adapted into a feature film and recently reissued as part of the HarperCollins American Classics series. He lives in Los Angeles where he is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Updated 7/2026)