Oscar Casares Explained

Oscar Cásares
Birth Date:	May 7, 1964
Birth Place:	Brownsville, Texas
Occupation:	Author, Professor of Creative Writing
Language:	English

Oscar Cásares (born May 7, 1964) is an American writer and associate professor of creative writing.^[1] He is the author of , Amigoland, and Where We Come From. Cásares teaches at the University of Texas at Austin where he is director of the Creative Writing Program.^[2]

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship (2020)^[3]
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2006)
• James A. Michener Award, Copernicus Society of America, Iowa Writers' Workshop (2002)^[4]
• Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Letters, University of Texas (2002)^[5]

Bibliography

Books

• Where We Come From (May 21, 2019)
• Amigoland (August 10, 2009)
• (March 6, 2003)

Selected Essays

• "Imaginary Friends," Texas Monthly, December 2010^[6]
• "The Departed," Texas Monthly, April 2010^[7]
• "You Must Read This: The Burning Plain," National Public Radio, October 2009^[8]
• "Grass Roots," Texas Monthly, December 2008^[9]
• "Ready for Some Futbol?", Texas Monthly, November 2006^[10]
• "In the Year 1974", Texas Monthly, March 2005 ^[11]
• "Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past," New York Times, September 2003^[12]

Notes and References

1. News: December 23, 2004 . Evan . Smith . Texas Monthly . Novelist Oscar Cásares.
2. News: Distinguished alumni announced . August 11, 2011 . The Brownsville Herald.
3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Oscar Cásares.
4. News: The stories of his life . Sharyn . Wizda Vane . March 2, 2003 . Austin American-Statesman .
5. News: The 2002-03 Dobie Paisano Fellows . Shawn . Badgley . June 14, 2002 . Austin Chronicle.
6. Cásares. Oscar. Imaginary Friends. Texas Monthly. December 2010.
7. Cásares. Oscar. The Departed. Texas Monthly. April 2010.
8. News: Oscar . Cásares . A Wild, 'Burning' Journey Back To Old Mexico. 3 October 2011. NPR. October 15, 2009.
9. Cásares. Oscar. Grass Roots. Texas Monthly. December 2008.
10. Cásares. Oscar. Ready for some futbol?. Texas Monthly. November 2006. November 2006. 130–142. 22 September 2011.
11. Web site: Cásares. Oscar. In the year 1974. Texas Monthly. 22 September 2011.
12. News: Cásares. Oscar. Crossing the Border Without Losing the Past. 3 October 2011. New York Times. September 16, 2003.