women in leather jacket, trying to look into the camera because she hates her picture being taken.
Libby Flores was chosen as one of eight writers in the United States to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2008. Her writing has appeared in One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Post Road Magazine, FLASH: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Waterstone Journal, Bridge Eight, Tin House/ Open Bar, Mc Sweeney’s, The Guardian Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paper Darts and others. She has taught creative writing workshops for the Sackett Writing Workshop, Tin House Online, One Story, Hub City Writers Project, Bennington College, and PEN America. Libby was selected as a semi-finalist in the American Short Fiction Short(er) Contest judged by Stuart Dybek. In 2017 she was selected as Bennington Writing Seminars' first Fiction Fellow. She is the former Director of Literary Programs at PEN Center USA. In 2018 she directed the second annual Believer Festival. She's currently the Associate Publisher at BOMB magazine and the 2024 guest fiction editor of the Bennington Review. She is on the board of Housing Works Bookstore, the LitNet Steering Committee, and the Periplus committee where she is a mentor. Libby holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. She lives in Brooklyn, but will always be a Texan. She is represented by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management.
Short Bio: Libby Flores' writing has appeared in One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Gagosian Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Post Road Magazine, McSweeney’s, Tin House /The Open Bar, The Guardian, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the Associate Publisher at BOMB Magazine and the 2024 guest fiction editor of the Bennington Review. She has taught creative writing workshops for the Sackett Writing Workshop, Tin House, One Story, Hub City Writers Project, Bennington College, and PEN America. She is currently a visiting faculty member at Bennington College. She lives in Brooklyn, but will always be a Texan. Libby is represented by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management.
X: @libbytheflores