Michael Torres

Michael Torres was born and brought up in Pomona, California where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names was selected by Raquel Salas Rivera for the National Poetry Series and will be published by Beacon Press in 2020. Torres is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Currently he’s an assistant professor in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato and a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Visit him at: michaeltorreswriter.com