Justin Torres
Justin Torres grew up in upstate New York, where his novel is set. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was a recipient of a Rolon Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He has worked as a farm hand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.