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a mother, a visual artist, and a numbers person. She is the author of Certain and Impossible Events, selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of a Kore Press Memoir Award and featured in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love. 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. Having vowed to never make writing her day job, she pieces together a salary by way of her more sought after skills. She is currently the Finance and Operations Director for Casey Droege Cultural Productions and the founder of&nbsp;Fringe Benefits Bookkeeping, a small firm providing bookkeeping and budgeting services to small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals in the Pittsburgh area, and beyond 🛸 Candace grew up in the woodsy marshlands of Southern Connecticut and lived in Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Oregon, before landing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband, writer Patrick McGinty, and their son. ︎Ooh! And some stuff she makes is available at Antiquated Future. <img width="1000" height="1079" width_o="1000" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b0b7ab6c1c3899be9c46bd9ee7e24d043f3b47060f54944b7902b768248165d/BW-mama.jpg" data-mid="109948400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b0b7ab6c1c3899be9c46bd9ee7e24d043f3b47060f54944b7902b768248165d/BW-mama.jpg" /> Digital Correspondence <img width="607" height="607" width_o="607" height_o="607" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ee4321fe69b8a7ecc0308ce08f933f97ac20d4fba8d590a80cb402367b0e442/payphone-gif.gif" data-mid="109948399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/607/i/5ee4321fe69b8a7ecc0308ce08f933f97ac20d4fba8d590a80cb402367b0e442/payphone-gif.gif" /> Sign up to receive A Curated Monthly Phone Call with Fonts,my not-always-monthly newsletter that still uses “monthly” in its title. https://candacejaneopper.com/DITTO-zine Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:24:27 +0000 candacejaneopper https://candacejaneopper.com/DITTO-zine ZINES + PRINTED MATTER ︎ Links to purchase provided below or contact me to order directly.︎︎︎ DITTOan archival zine series that explores the act of keeping. <img width="1050" height="1275" width_o="1050" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f82687082ce0917c6fe6540ea00145c85dada5b88871314e5155e764464b2ef4/DITTO-3-cover-draft.jpg" data-mid="130278271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f82687082ce0917c6fe6540ea00145c85dada5b88871314e5155e764464b2ef4/DITTO-3-cover-draft.jpg" /> DITTO VOL. 3: Fan The manifestations of extreme fandom as explored through a high school-era obsession with the Smashing Pumpkins. $10︎ Order: Antiquated Future <img width="750" height="908" width_o="750" height_o="908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ab34d9f09bc6f8bf6a2f3a470bcd23f422d62c68e78e1a5c2a83881d8b0df13/DITTO-2-cover.jpg" data-mid="101879176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/8ab34d9f09bc6f8bf6a2f3a470bcd23f422d62c68e78e1a5c2a83881d8b0df13/DITTO-2-cover.jpg" /> DITTO VOL. 2: Thirteen A companion piece to Certain and Impossible Events, DITTO Vol. 2 features artifacts that illuminate the resilience of adolescent longing. $10︎ Order: Antiquated Future <img width="2094" height="2560" width_o="2094" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/533eb94db641af0a042707247eab6865bf3a817ac60681540681af2aeac88a7a/DITTO_cover.jpg" data-mid="101879260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/533eb94db641af0a042707247eab6865bf3a817ac60681540681af2aeac88a7a/DITTO_cover.jpg" /> DITTO VOL. 1: Correspondence —as in, the transfer of information from one entity to another: notes, letters, contracts, notices, official fan club mail. Some directed to me, some to someone who is not me, some to anyone who happens to come into its orbit.$10︎ Order: Antiquated Future <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18122dc9b9153444ec8d721384b8036c9ca02a931c3008c5165a47ac1ec07239/DITTO-2.2.jpg" data-mid="101879171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18122dc9b9153444ec8d721384b8036c9ca02a931c3008c5165a47ac1ec07239/DITTO-2.2.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74a0964acc7c06f4f5c21307be31911f29ef474d8c8c0853a61fb5dfe08f444a/DITTO-2.3.jpg" data-mid="101879172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74a0964acc7c06f4f5c21307be31911f29ef474d8c8c0853a61fb5dfe08f444a/DITTO-2.3.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8e8b0d9b4d733e826453a31066fb67114166d8609ad25853e4abc253b07fd28/DITTO-2.6.jpg" data-mid="101879174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8e8b0d9b4d733e826453a31066fb67114166d8609ad25853e4abc253b07fd28/DITTO-2.6.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32a0f028f3d112acfd783ca652f90619aec8a542259703bb8a85982658e561f6/DITTO-1.2.jpg" data-mid="101879359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32a0f028f3d112acfd783ca652f90619aec8a542259703bb8a85982658e561f6/DITTO-1.2.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e3d71734ad14438b522fab253848cfecbe4c934d9148439e946092269a444fa/DITTO-1.3.jpg" data-mid="101879360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e3d71734ad14438b522fab253848cfecbe4c934d9148439e946092269a444fa/DITTO-1.3.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b927f10dc719bc3b7c37d9500e96e98caf306d82bdba409aeb2c61d3d711603/DITTO-1.4.jpg" data-mid="101879363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b927f10dc719bc3b7c37d9500e96e98caf306d82bdba409aeb2c61d3d711603/DITTO-1.4.jpg" /> DITTO Vol. 1 was funded in part by a Small Creatures Scope Arts Grant.︎︎︎ OTHER ZINES <img width="2400" height="2714" width_o="2400" height_o="2714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd7a162d3de9f0cee848de450189eec8c2f8a6111bdd66c2f129a8fec277b5b2/jp-cover-draft.png" data-mid="200365148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd7a162d3de9f0cee848de450189eec8c2f8a6111bdd66c2f129a8fec277b5b2/jp-cover-draft.png" /> LIFE LESSONS &amp; WISDOM from JURASSIC PARK Thirty years of leaning on this cultural behemoth to answer life’s many questions. $8 Available from Antiquated Future <img width="1646" height="1275" width_o="1646" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/060e94b2ec291d3a7ef9ec3f7bad7c4f7915e09553da1debbdfa0992a1757ae9/channel-america-cover.png" data-mid="200365193" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/060e94b2ec291d3a7ef9ec3f7bad7c4f7915e09553da1debbdfa0992a1757ae9/channel-america-cover.png" /> CHANNEL AMERICA A mini-zine about cable in the afterlife. $2 <img width="1650" height="2550" width_o="1650" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc354cde2a1bdedd5e1c54b426d91752dd424d863d5687082805a19b13657e6d/SIBO-cover-image.jpg" data-mid="224114040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc354cde2a1bdedd5e1c54b426d91752dd424d863d5687082805a19b13657e6d/SIBO-cover-image.jpg" /> DISEMBOWEL ME An IBS zine. Many colons included; not for the faint of heart. $8Available from Antiquated Future ︎︎︎ PRINTED MATTER <img width="1239" height="1749" width_o="1239" height_o="1749" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/486a7a3e06c12d262103f9835d61a649ec42ad480ebcbad1ff57def1aa4389f1/hello-its-me-card-1.jpg" data-mid="200365667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/486a7a3e06c12d262103f9835d61a649ec42ad480ebcbad1ff57def1aa4389f1/hello-its-me-card-1.jpg" /><img width="1749" height="1239" width_o="1749" height_o="1239" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6159bd7916cc63134f96518de888dfe232db61df209c04e32e77f6f53903e26b/hello-its-me-card-3.jpg" data-mid="200365671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6159bd7916cc63134f96518de888dfe232db61df209c04e32e77f6f53903e26b/hello-its-me-card-3.jpg" /> <img width="1749" height="1239" width_o="1749" height_o="1239" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ede9b4efe08031d69cbff449091e9d84de3212d054d48c16ae84d9f6fdb0e5b/hello-its-me-card-4.jpg" data-mid="200365673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ede9b4efe08031d69cbff449091e9d84de3212d054d48c16ae84d9f6fdb0e5b/hello-its-me-card-4.jpg" /><img width="1239" height="1749" width_o="1239" height_o="1749" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a69495011bb77cc30ead4d2591b1df00e516715fa277b5600a169200c33a2de/hello-its-me-card-2.jpg" data-mid="200365669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a69495011bb77cc30ead4d2591b1df00e516715fa277b5600a169200c33a2de/hello-its-me-card-2.jpg" /> HELLO IT’S ME phone cards $5 ︎&nbsp;Available in PGH at Caffe d’Amore ︎ Order 4-packs from Antiquated Future &nbsp; <img width="1784" height="2478" width_o="1784" height_o="2478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3acf3e6d2df953505aa174e2091d9d623ef468e58754204c5c7ae9ee3285f3dc/kill-your-email.png" data-mid="200365472" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3acf3e6d2df953505aa174e2091d9d623ef468e58754204c5c7ae9ee3285f3dc/kill-your-email.png" /> KILL YR EMAIL POSTCARD $2 <img width="2700" height="3600" width_o="2700" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c56b481ad467dd2923760d6d00ccaa36c5095777f7516665a6b962b7eba38437/peri-meno-mall_for-print.png" data-mid="241704152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c56b481ad467dd2923760d6d00ccaa36c5095777f7516665a6b962b7eba38437/peri-meno-mall_for-print.png" /> PERI-MENO-MALL POSTCARD $3 https://candacejaneopper.com/Book Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:37:31 +0000 candacejaneopper https://candacejaneopper.com/Book <img width="1264" height="1920" width_o="1264" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb261777dc40b23409543c94ae271e2f23ad0d4ac269a709e9ec58c32c4d9a3c/OPPERcvrFront8.11.20.jpg" data-mid="101423531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb261777dc40b23409543c94ae271e2f23ad0d4ac269a709e9ec58c32c4d9a3c/OPPERcvrFront8.11.20.jpg" /> “A decades-long examination of the hierarchy of grief and the nature of personal obsession.” —Megan Stielstra Cover artwork by Lauren Carrera Certain and Impossible EventsBy Candace Jane Opper CERTAIN AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS orbits the death of a fourteen-year-old boy who shot and killed himself a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide had become international news. Haunted by the hazy circumstances around her classmate’s death, Candace Jane Opper takes a kaleidoscopic lens to the cultural history of suicide in America, unearthing an invisible network and revealing the ways that no individual suicide—well-known or hardly documented—exists in a vacuum. Fusing personal narrative with history and science, Opper interrogates the ways suicide is handed down to us—from literature to YouTube, from middle school health class to sociological study, from the immutability of objects to the fluidity of oral history. In this candid and unsentimental epistolary essay, Opper invites us into her decades-long obsession with a boy she barely knew, creating space for herself and her readers to embrace a radical kind of unforgetting. Selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the Kore Press Memoir Prize. Featured on NPR’s 2021 Books We Love ︎&nbsp;PURCHASE:&nbsp;Kore Press,&nbsp;Bookshop, Barnes &amp; Noble &amp; the other places you find books ︎ Digital Press Flyer ︎ Praise Certain and Impossible Events is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s a powerfully original exploration of the many meanings of suicide and a beautifully written memoir of a particular kind of loss. I was impressed with the intellectual curiosity of this book, and also with its emotional rigor. With astonishing insight and candor, the author drew me into the endlessly unfolding mystery of her decades-long obsession with her teenage crush, a boy she scarcely knew, who killed himself at 14. Certain and Impossible Events is both a clear-eyed tour de force about suicide and an intimate and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman coming to grips with an experience that inexplicably shaped her. Perhaps most of all, I loved the quality of the prose. I was in this talented writer’s thrall from page one. —Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Certain and Impossible Events is a stunning gutpunch of a memoir for the heart and for the head. In laser-sharp, near-cinematic prose, Candace Opper both remembers and discovers the childhood friend lost to suicide, a decades-long examination of the hierarchy of grief and the nature of personal obsession. I kept putting the book down to remind myself to breathe. I kept picking it up to find out what happened next. I’ll keep picking it up for what it shows me about this beautiful mess of a world and how I can better walk through it. —Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life Certain and Impossible Events is the shoebox full of memories that you don’t know what to do with, lovingly and unsparingly curated into a museum of infatuation, grief, obsession, and hard-won wisdom; it’s the love letter to your teenage self that you would write if you could. A memoirist who seeks the harshest truths about both her own life and the American mind, Opper draws you into her one history in a way that will re-examine yours. —Sarah Marshall, Host of You're Wrong About “Beautiful, painful, and honest”...”There is no closure in Opper’s book, but there is language—and isn’t that a lot?—to describe the complexity and hierarchies of grief, the stigmatization of suicide, and the emotional components of intellectual obsession.” —BOMB Magazine In this profoundly moving meditation on the suicide of a classmate, Opper dives into the raw wound of a decades-old obsession, seeking not healing or closure but a deeper understanding of the changeling nature of the wound itself—cultural and personal, specific and universal, public and private. Unsentimental, lucid, harrowing, but ultimately restorative, Certain and Impossible Events left me breathless. —Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Northwood “In pushing back against the hierarchies of grief that prescribe whose pain deserves to be aired, Opper illuminates the ripple effects of suicide—’a bizarre kind of loss, full of answers and empty of ways to access them’—and how the violence of a life ended early can leave even casual acquaintances reeling.”—Bookforum Opper carries the reader through the evolution of her grief, from awkward teenage obsession through to womanhood, where she comes to know almost every answer but the one she seeks. Certain and Impossible Events also comes with a side of 90s nostalgia and a fascinating exploration of suicide in pop culture. If you’ve ever felt the loss of a friend or acquaintance to suicide, but never felt there was a proper place for your grief, this one will resonate. —Dese’Rae L. Stage, Founder of Live Through This https://candacejaneopper.com/Events Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:11:53 +0000 candacejaneopper https://candacejaneopper.com/Events <img width="1011" height="989" width_o="1011" height_o="989" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cd12f2ce7542e24641e43fd7f37f9d064c76066b88443af52dbfec10d57d4b8/events.png" data-mid="105579323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cd12f2ce7542e24641e43fd7f37f9d064c76066b88443af52dbfec10d57d4b8/events.png" /> UPCOMING Stay tuned! 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If you are interested and think you’re not on the snail mail list, please send me your mailng address via this website’s contact form. Print newsletters are free of charge, with a suggested donation of $2-5.&nbsp; https://candacejaneopper.com/Writing Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:20:34 +0000 candacejaneopper https://candacejaneopper.com/Writing Writing “American Beauty Reincarnate: A Teen Masterpiece” Bright Wall/Dark Room, 03.11.24 “In Praise of a Derelict Teen Sanctuary” Alive in the Nineties, 09.02.23 “Love Buzz” Kithe, Spring/Summer 2022 “Poser” Vestoj Issue Ten: On Doubt, Jan. 2022 “Door Girl” The Normal School, 10.7.21 “Earth Girls Are Easy’s Cosmic Love Affair with the San Fernando Valley” Bright Wall/Dark Room, 09.10.21 “Party On, Vlad: The Immortal Transience of Bram Stoker’s Dracula” Bright Wall/Dark Room, 11.20.20 “July 15, 2019,” Featured in Lenka Clayton’s Mothers’ Days, 2020 “Deliver Me from L.L. 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“Swans Crossing and the Makings of a Forgotten Teen Melodrama” Full Stop, 01.29.13 “Five Characters in Search of a Christmas Episode” Full Stop, 12.21.12 “Heroine Addict: A Q&amp;A with author Kate Zambreno” Bitch Media, 11.14.12 “Beer Pong Etiquette” Thought Catalog, 03.23.12 “In Defense of Childhood Stuffed Animals” Thought Catalog, 01.12.12 https://candacejaneopper.com/Media Sun, 09 May 2021 16:59:46 +0000 candacejaneopper https://candacejaneopper.com/Media Podcast Appearances <img width="1138" height="1128" width_o="1138" height_o="1128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f96171322363707b525cb051044ce0e5fccb342519d7b144f8739a42ddc0db18/YAG-JAWS-2.png" data-mid="248392037" border="0" alt="JAWS 2, 08/13/2025 " data-caption="JAWS 2, 08/13/2025 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f96171322363707b525cb051044ce0e5fccb342519d7b144f8739a42ddc0db18/YAG-JAWS-2.png" /> <img width="1472" height="1474" width_o="1472" height_o="1474" 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