Profile

Fernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in South Texas. He is the author of the collection Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and the novel Tears of the Trufflepig, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of 2019 by Tor.com. His fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. His collection of stories Valleyesque is forthcoming May 2022. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Visit him online at thewriterflores.com.

Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Visiting Alumni Poet & Translator, Summer 2018

Sarah Seltzer

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Patricia Spears Jones

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Victor LaValle

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2017

Tarfia Faizullah

Visiting Poet, Summer 2016

Khaled Mattawa

Visiting Poet & Translator, Summer 2021