Fernando A. Flores

Fernando A. Flores is a Mexican-American author. He moved to South Texas at a young age near McAllen, Texas, a border town. He studied at the (now called) University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Fernando Flores eventually dropped out of college but was hired as an employee. He was attracted to literature, so he passed his time as an audiovisual technician by learning and reading at the university's library. His fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of publications.

He won an honorable mention award from the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation.

Influences

Literary Fernando Flores is an avid reader. He is influenced and moved by artist like Emily Bronte, Pierre Reverdy, and Rimbaud.

In 2018, he won the Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize in Fiction. In 2019, Tears of the Trufflepig was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Recognition In 2015, Flores was profiled as part of Texas Monthly‘s Ten Writers to Watch list, and noted as one of the "crucial" authors described in a 2019 Texas Monthly article, "Reinventing the Canon: Why It’s More Important Than Ever to Read Latinx Literature."