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.

Brooke Champagne

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer

William Giraldi

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

Jenny Offill

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2020

Alexander Chee

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018

Patricia Spears Jones

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Carmen Maria Machado

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2019