Oscar Mireles is an educator, writer, and school administrator from Racine, Wisconsin. Mr. Mireles has been the Executive Director of Omega School for the past 20 years. Omega School provides adult basic education services (GED Preparation) in several sites in Dane County. Mr. Mireles has assisted over 2500 young adults with securing a GED/HSED credential. The GED/HSED credential serves as an access point for entry level employment and/or post-secondary education.
Oscar Mireles is a published poet and editor. Mireles’s poetry has been published in over 100 different publications, including Revista Chicano Riquena (now Americas Review), Viatztlan, Colorlines, Nuestra Cosa, Milwaukee Journal and Catholic Herald. Mireles’s first chapbook of 20 poems was published in 1985 and was titled Second Generation (Focus Communications 1985). Mr. Mireles was Publisher and Editor of I didn’t know there were Latinos in Wisconsin: 20 Latino poets (Focus Communications 1989). Reviewer Tim Forkes writes ” the compilation stands as not only as a picture of Wisconsin’s Hispanic community… but also the latest of Mireles’ many contributions ” Mr. Mireles organized the second and third anthology of I didn’t know there were Latinos in Wisconsin (Focus Communications 1999) and (Cowfeather Press, 2014) where he served as the Editor and contributor.