Oscar Cásares, writer

Oscar Cásares is the author of the story collection Brownsville, and the novels Amigoland and Where We Come From, which have earned him fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, the Texas Institute of Letters, and most recently, the Guggenheim Foundation. His writing focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, where he grew up and his family began to settle in the mid 1800s. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Texas Monthly, and on National Public Radio. He teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.