The Hemingway Center Reading Series and Creative Writing MFA Program present author Fernando Flores, 

“Flores’s style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing literature for the first time.” ―Mark Leyner, The New York Times Book Review

“Flores’s fiction possesses the aspect of a dream.” ―David L. Ulin, The Atlantic

Event Details

At 7 PM on Friday, April 10, 2026, Flores will give a reading of his work, followed by a Q and A and book signing. Free and open to the public, the Hemingway Center Reading Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.

About Fernando Flores

Born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Fernando A. Flores grew up in South Texas. He authored the collections "Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas" and "Valleyesque," along with the novels "Tears of the Trufflepig" and "Brother Brontë," one of Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025. He lives in Austin, Texas. 

Praise for Fernando Flores

"["Brother Brontë" is] An absolute blast to read. Its madcap, carnivalesque backdrop is rendered in psychedelic polychromatics . . . Flores’s style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing literature for the first time here, with all the lordly de haut en bas of an autodidact . . . This is not a book for the abstemious reader. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet of sumptuous language to gorge on . . . Of course, the criminalization of book possession, the notion of reading as taboo, as transgression, would make almost any text that much more titillating. But I must say, from my subterranean lair, hidden from the drones of the chupacabras, that I haven’t read a novel so rambunctiously lyrical and as gloriously evangelical about literature in a long time. Bravo to Brother Brontë himself, Fernando A. Flores." ―Mark Leyner, The New York Times Book Review

"[Flores'] prose is evocative, electric, and wildly original . . . This is a wild ride of a novel, and a fascinating look at a future that, sadly, seems frighteningly plausible. A stunning tale of survival and a biting critique of book bans and late capitalism." ―Kirkus (starred review)