Oscar Casares
Oscar Casares is an American writer and an associate professor of creative writing. He is the author of and Amigoland. Casares teaches at the University of Texas at Austin where he is director of the Creative Writing Program.Honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- James A. Michener Award, Copernicus Society of America, Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Letters, University of Texas
Books
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- Amigoland
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Selected Essays
- "Imaginary Friends," Texas Monthly, December 2010
- "The Departed," Texas Monthly, April 2010
- "You Must Read This: The Burning Plain," National Public Radio, October 2009
- "Grass Roots," Texas Monthly, December 2008
- "Ready for Some Futbol?", Texas Monthly, November 2006
- "In the Year 1974", Texas Monthly, March 2005
- "Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past," New York Times, September 2003
