Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation presents an evening with LGBT author Justin Torres, June 20

ReadOut, a program of the Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundations presents an evening with critically acclaimed author Justin Torres 7 p.m., Saturday, June 20 at the Central Library, 330 Park Blvd. in San Diego.

Justin Torres was the first openly gay Latino to be named one of the “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation, a prestigious honor that recognizes and celebrates young authors. Come enjoy a wonderful night of reading and literature as Justin Torres delights us with excerpts from his New York Times bestselling debut novel, We The Animals.

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Justin Torres  has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications, as well as non-fiction pieces in publications like The Guardian and The Advocate. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and most recently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. The National Book Foundation named him one of 2012’s 5 Under 35. He has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.