Oscar is a poet and teacher from the American southwest. He grew up in Santa Fe, NM, and has hopped around in Spokane, Portland, Las Vegas, and Moscow. His interests in poetry include modernist and postmodernist writers such as Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, and Erin Moure, as well as global literatures and in particular Eastern European and Latin American traditions. In 2013, Oscar visited the Slovenia poet Tomaz Salamun in Ljubljana, and he has recently developed an appreciation for poets in the Spanish Baroque style such as Luis de Góngora and Sor Juana de la Cruz. He spends his free time hiking and walking — always on his feet.

• Pastoral Literature
• Nature Writing
• Comparative Literature
• Experimental Poetics
• Composition and Research

• Irredenta (Nightboat Books, 2021)
• Poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, Lana Turner Journal, Seneca Review, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, and Blackbox Manifold, among other outlets.