Fernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in South Texas. He is the author of the collections Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and Valleyesque 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. He lives in Austin, Texas.
2025 Festival Sessions
Michener Center Presents: Not the Texas You Know: Unconventional Takes on the Lone Star State
Saturday, November 8,
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Texas Tent presented by Texas Monthly
Recordando el Pasado, Reimaginando el Futuro: Ficción Especulativa de Autores Latinx
Sunday, November 9,
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Leamos Tent: Latine/Hispanic Authors & Literature in Spanish