Oso Guardiola

Oso Guardiola received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Maytag Scholarship and the Arthur James Pflughaupt Prize in Fiction. His short stories have been awarded the 2023 Gulf Coast Prize for Fiction, the 2022 runner-up for the J.F. Powers Prize in Fiction, and the 2021 Honorable Mention for the San Miguel Writers' Contest in Fiction. His fiction has appeared in Latino Book Review Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, and Dappled Things Literary Magazine, and is forthcoming in Gulf Coast Magazine.

Today, Oso pursues an M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Spanish at the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese.