Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

[6] City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as gay.

[7] After leaving his family home, Torres attended SUNY Purchase on scholarship but quickly dropped out.

[6] Torres is currently an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[1][12] He has published short fiction for The New Yorker,[13] Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications, as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.