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.

Dewaine Farria

Visiting Alumnx Fiction Writer, Summer 2020

J. Kates

Visiting Translator, Winter 2017

Tommy Orange

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2021

Ravi Howard

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2023

Amy Wallen

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Summer 2019

Bianca Stone

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference