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J. L. Torres was born on 19 December, 0054 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, is a writer. Discover J. L. Torres's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Author, poet, scholar
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December 0054
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace Cayey, Puerto Rico
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2020

In 2020, Torres's second collection of short stories, Migrations, won the Inaugural Tomas Rivera Book Prize, sponsored by the University of California, Riverside, and the Los Angeles Review of Books and judged by Luis Alberto Urrea.

2014

Torres's collection of poetry Boricua Passport was published by 2Leaf Press in 2014. Reviewer Marilyn McCabe wrote that "[Torres's] poems explore his Bronx boyhood with its mix of gritty urban reality and the richness of the Puerto Rican culture of his neighborhood...He also explores the Puerto Rico of today, both its complexities and his attachment to and alienation from the very place that he is supposed to consider 'home.'"

2013

The Accidental Native marks the first novel written in English dealing with the Nuyorican reverse migration to Puerto Rico. Claudio Iván Remeseira of NBCLatino recommended it as one of “5 great reads by Latino and Caribbean authors” for 2013. In her review of the novel, Donna Chavez writes that "Torres does capture the conflicts and challenges Puerto Ricans experience when returning to their homeland, but he reaches beyond the specific to the universal, illuminating the lives and feelings of any second-generation American in a similar situation."

2011

In 2011, Torres was awarded a Fulbright to teach US multiethnic literature at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

2008

In 2008, Arte Público Press published Torres's first collection of short fiction, The Family Terrorist and Other Stories. In his review for the Multicultural Review, Aaron Michael Morales wrote of the collection: "Sexy, provocative, brave even, Torres gives plenty of space in ten of his eleven stories…for an exploration of how men construct their identities in relation to the men with whom they interact." The author and scholar Manuel Muñoz included the collection in his review essay "Crossing Territories: New Spaces in Six Works of Fiction," published in the journal Western American Literature in 2011.

As a literary scholar and critic, Torres has contributed essays and reviews to the study of multi-ethnic literature, particularly Latino literature and the literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. He co-edited with Carmen Haydee Rivera, a critical anthology of the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora, Writing Off the Hyphen: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, which was published in 2008. The Puerto Rican scholar Frances Aparicio, in her review of the book, wrote that "There is no other literary anthology that is timely, up to date, and that brings together such a wide array of topics and approaches that do justice to the complexities of U.S. Puerto Rican literature."

1994

Torres received a B.A. from Vassar College, where he majored in Hispanic studies and psychology. He went on to receive an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1994, where he wrote a dissertation on critical essays of the Chicano Renaissance.

1993

To date, Torres has published a collection of short stories, a novel and a poetry collection, besides numerous stories and poems in journals such as the North American Review, Puerto del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, and the Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. In 1993, his story, "My Father's Flag," was selected by editors Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans for inclusion in Growing Up Latino, published by Houghton-Mifflin.

1984

Early in his career, Torres served as the managing editor of Latin N.Y. Magazine. He also worked as a freelance writer for Nuestro, the first nationally published, monthly, general-interest magazine, in English, for and about Latinos in the United States. After receiving his M.F.A, he moved to Puerto Rico to teach at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. While there, Torres had his first story, "Kerchiefs on a Fence," published by Chiricu Journal in 1984. In 2000, he started a position in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where he teaches and co-founded and edited the Saranac Review.

1954

Jose Luis Torres-Padilla (born December 1954), also known by his pen name J. L. Torres, is a Puerto Rican and American fiction writer, poet, literary scholar, critic and editor. He was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico and grew up in the South Bronx. His work focuses on diasporic Puerto Rican literature and culture. He is married and has two sons.