Justin Haynes is a novelist and short story writer who was born in Port of Spain and raised just outside of it. He later moved to Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from St. Francis College, the University of Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt University.

He has been awarded various fiction residencies and fellowships, including from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Carl Djerassi Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, the Vermont Studio Center, the Nicholas Jenkins Barnett fiction fellowship at Emory University, Art Omi, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and at the Tin House Summer Workshop.

His writing has been published in a variety of literary magazines and journals, including Caribbean Quarterly, SX Salon|Small Axe Project, and Pree. Justin lives in in Atlanta and teaches English and creative writing at Oglethorpe University