Fernando is a writer from Houston, TX. His work has appeared in Texas Monthly, American Short Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, The Acentos Review and Ghost City Press. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received support from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the Community of Writers, the Willapa Bay Artist Residency, the Macondo Workshop, and the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley. He received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction for the Sewanee Writers Conference. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Texas in Austin.