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

Emily Bernard

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

William Giraldi

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference; Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2023

Shruti Swamy

Visiting Fiction Writer

Joy Castro

Visiting Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2016

J. Kates

Visiting Translator, Winter 2017