CANDACE JANE OPPER
Lowbrow cinefile 📺 Analog enthusiast ☎️ Connecticut-bred riff-raff 💎 
Lowbrow cinefile 📺 Analog enthusiast ☎️ Connecticut-bred riff-raff 💎 


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  1. Candace Jane Opper is a writer, a mother, and a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of personal and cultural histories.


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Candace Jane Opper is a writer, a mother, and a visual artist. She is the author of Certain and Impossible Events, selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of a Kore Press Memoir Award. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Longreads, Narratively, Literary Hub, The Normal School, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Vestoj, among others. She holds an MFA from Portland State University and is the recipient of a Creative Nonfiction Foundation Fellowship. She is currently the Senior Editor with Point Line Projects and the Finance Coordinator for Casey Droege Cultural Productions

Candace grew up in the woods of Southern Connecticut and spent time living in Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Oregon, before landing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband, writer Patrick McGinty, and their son.

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