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Justin Torres

Justin Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

His first novel, We the Animals, has been translated into fifteen languages and received the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named Torres one of its “5 Under 35.” He is an assistant professor of English at UCLA.

Lecture Year

2016–2017

Lecture Series

Durst Distinguished Lectures