J.L. TORRES: Writer; Professor; Puerto Rican Gadfly; USC, PhD (English Language, Lit)

J.L. TORRES: Writer; Professor; Puerto Rican Gadfly; USC, PhD (English Language, Lit) CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN WE THE SPECIES CELEBRATING ONE YEAR & 103 INTERVIEWS PLEASE SUBSCRIBE YouTube: http://bit.ly/3mSXWJQ ** J.L. TORRES: Writer; Professor; Puerto Rican Gadfly; USC, PhD (English Language, Lit) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud7Pnyz3Wxs ** CONTACT: Author Page: https://jltorreswriter.com/ Blog: https://post-barrio-universe.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rican_Writer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RicanWriter Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2811795.J_L_Torres Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rican_writer/ BIO: J.L. Torres is author of short story collection, Migrations, inaugural winner of Tomas Rivera Book Prize (LARB Libros, June, 2021). His other publications include The Family Terrorist & Other Stories (Arte Publico, 2008), & novel, The Accidental Native (Arte Publico) & poetry collection, Boricua Passport (2Leaf Press/U. of Chicago P, Spring, 2014). He has also published stories & poems in many journals and magazines, among them the Hayden Ferry Review, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, No American Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, The Connecticut Review, The Bilingual Review, & The Tulane Review. He is also Co-Editor, along with Carmen H. Rivera, of Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on Literature of Puerto Rican Diaspora (U. of Washington P, 2008). Born in #PuertoRico raised in the South Bronx, he taught #Americanliterature & creative writing for 40 years, and received a Fulbright to teach in Barcelona. His last position was with #SUNYPlattsburgh where he taught for 20 years & co-founded and edited the Saranac Review. Besides the PhD, he holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia Univ.