Justin Torres was raised in upstate New York and published his debut novel, We the Animals in 2011. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he was the recipient of a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.
The event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation, The Wittliff Collections, and the Texas State University Department of English.
(Books available during and after the event through the University Bookstore and Barnes and Noble.)
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Friday Nov 2, 2012
7:30 PM - 7:30 PM CDT