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.

Bianca Stone

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Yusef Komunyakaa

Visiting Poet, Winter 2022

Shruti Swamy

Visiting Fiction Writer

Kaveh Akbar

Visiting Poet, Summer 2022

Victor LaValle

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2017

Danielle Evans

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2018