Tucson Festival of Books

Fernando Flores


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 latest book is "Brother Brontë." His fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, and Porter House Review. He lives in Austin.

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Awards: In 2018, he won the Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize in Fiction


Books:
Brother Brontë
A Novel
Nuestras Raices
MCD Books
February 2026
ISBN 9781250419927
352 pages

Valleyesque
Stories
Nuestras Raices
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2022
ISBN 9780374604134
208 pages