English professor Justin Torres receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

Justin Torres, a UCLA associate professor of English, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2024.

The prestigious fellowships, presented by the John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, carry cash awards of varying amounts and are intended to recognize artists, scholars, writers and creative professionals both for their achievements to date and for their exceptional promise. Torres was one of 188 fellows chosen from among almost 3,000 applicants.

Torres, a member of the UCLA faculty since 2015, is a novelist, short story writer and occasional essayist. His second novel, “Blackouts,” won the National Book Award in November 2023, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is currently a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the California Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award.