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

Martha Collins

Visiting Literary Translation Writer, MFA in Writing

Paul Yoon

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021

Tess Lewis

Visiting Literary Translation Writer

Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Visiting Alumni Poet & Translator, Summer 2018

Fernando A. Flores

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2022