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= Justin Torres - Edits = Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel We the Animals which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee. We the Animals has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Early life
Justin Torres was born in 1980 to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent. He was raised in Baldwinsville, New York as the youngest of three brothers. Although his novel We the Animals is not an autobiography, Torres has claimed that the "hard facts" in the novel mirror his own life. City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as homosexual. After leaving his family home, he attended New York University on scholarship but quickly dropped out. After a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School which motivated him to start writing seriously.

Awards and honors
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 NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author). Torres further won the 2012 First Novelist Award for We the Animals. Torres was named by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him among their 5 under 35 young fiction writers.

Career
In 2010, Torres received his master's degree from Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was a recipient of the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. In the summer of 2016, He was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. He was a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan. Torres is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

He has published short fiction for Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.

A movie version of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won the Next Innovator Prize.

Stories

 * Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC
 * Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC
 * Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC
 * Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC
 * Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC

Book Reviews


= Article Selection - Justin Torres = Justin TorresThe article’s content is relevant to the topic.

It is written neutrally.

Each claim has a citation.

Most of the citations reliable, there is one from Salon.com.

Sources:

Rohrleitner, Marion Christina. (2017). Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres' We the Animals. European Journal of American Studies, 11(3), 35 paragraphs.

Barbara Chai, "Keeping It All in the Family" (parents)

Torres page

where he grew up and brief education

Stories and essays he has published (try to locate them)

lives in LA and works as Assis. Prof of Eng at UCLA


 * 1) 3-5 peer reviewed articles
 * 2) reference source

bottom - book reviews, interviews, blogs

model article Jesmyn Ward

bold underline

Interview: about being a writer

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/we-animals-author-justin-torres-latinos-are-dehumanized-literature-antidote-n898481

http://remezcla.com/features/film/we-the-animals-interview-justin-torres/

https://electricliterature.com/interview-justin-torres-author-of-we-the-animals-46e66f611309

Comments
A good start. Can you link to the Torres page? Also, use this space to answer the three questions in re article selection. Keep looking for sources. Did you find a DOI for the Euro Journal of Am Studies? Profhanley (talk)