Oscar Casares

Oscar Casares (born May 7, 1964) is an American writer and an associate professor of creative writing. He is the author of Brownsville: Stories and Amigoland. Casares teaches at the University of Texas at Austin where he is director of the Creative Writing Program.

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