A woman in a leather jacket, trying to look into the camera because she hates her picture being taken.
The longer story:
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 The New Yorker. One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, The Southampton Review, Post Road Magazine, Waterstone Journal, Tin House/ Open Bar, McSweeney’s, The Guardian Books, and Los Angeles Review of Books. (See the publications page for full credits).
She has taught creative writing workshops at Columbia, Bennington College, One Story, Kenyon Review Summer Workshops, Sackett Writing Workshop, Tin House, Hub City Writers Project, and PEN America. In 2017, she was selected as Bennington Writing Seminars' first Fiction Fellow. She returned to campus again in 2024 to be a guest faculty member and the fiction editor for the Bennington Review.
In Los Angeles, she was the Manager of the Emerging Voices Fellowship until she became the Director of Literary Programs at PEN Center USA. In 2018, she left LA to direct the second annual Believer Festival. After moving to New York in 2018, she started at BOMB Magazine, where she was the Associate Publisher for eight years.
She is on the board of Housing Works Bookstore, the Brooklyn Book Festival Fiction Committee, the LitNet Steering Committee, and the Periplus Advisory Committee, where she is a mentor. Libby is a Yaddo Artist and holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. She lives in Brooklyn. She is represented by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management. She is teaching this fall at Columbia University. Her book All Good Men is forthcoming from Unnamed Press in 2027.
Short Bio: Libby Flores' writing has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Gagosian Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Libby teaches at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn. Her book All Good Men is forthcoming from Unnamed Press in 2027.