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.

Shruti Swamy

Visiting Fiction Writer

Alison Bechdel

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2016

Major Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Poet, Winter 2016

Samantha Hunt

Visting Fiction Writer, MFA in Writing

Chen Chen

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

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Visiting Poet, Summer 2016