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.

Jehanne Dubrow

Distinguished Visiting Alumnx in Creative Nonfiction

Dominic Bucca

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Summer 2022

Maggie Nelson

Visiting Writer, Winter 2017

Samantha Hunt

Visting Fiction Writer, MFA in Writing

Fernando A. Flores

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2022

J. Kates

Visiting Translator, Winter 2017