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.

Major Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Poet, Winter 2016

Wendy C. Ortiz

Visiting CNF Writer, Summer 2019

Tere Dávila

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018

Paul Yoon

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021

Ravi Howard

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2023

Kiese Laymon

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2020