Events › TFOB Panel: La Lucha Sigue: Resistance in Fiction

Join Fernando Flores, Jennifer Givhan, and Ruben Reyes Jr. as they discuss stories of resistance, justice, and the ties that bring people together. Their narratives transcend borders (both physical and metaphorical) between worlds both familiar and strange, connected by shared humanity.

Authors: Fernando Flores, Jennifer Givhan, Ruben Reyes Jr.

Moderator: Dra. Karla Silva

There will be an opportunity to get books signed after the panel.

For more information, visit Tucson Festival of Books 2026.

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.

Jennifer Givhan is a Chicana/Indigenous author from the Southwestern desert and a recipient of the NEA and PEN Emerging Voices fellowships. The LA Times called her novel "Salt Bones" “a triumph... One of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing.” It was a Publisher’s Weekly and Book Riot Best Book of 2025. Givhan has won an International Latino Book Award in Rudolfo Anaya Latino-Focused Fiction and holds a Master’s degree from Cal State Fullerton and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College.

Ruben Reyes, Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of "Archive of Unknown Universes" and "There Is A Rio Grande in Heaven." A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College, his writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. Originally from Southern California, he now lives in Brooklyn.