MARK OPREA - Mark Oprea | Freelance Journalist

Mark Oprea is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

He's contributed to
NPR, Narratively, Belt,
the Pacific Standard, the
Los Angeles Review of Books,
and has been featured in
The Week, Reader's Digest and
Longreads. He's a Kiplinger Fellow at Ohio University,
an SJN LEDE Fellow
and a PEN America
grant recipient.

He's written about Mexico's
most dangerous volcano,
heroin addicts-turned-
police liaisons and a PhD
drag queen's big come-up.
Mostly, he practices
character-driven solutions journalism across the U.S.,
and is the founder of the Parachute Project, a
digital media service for
U.S. news deserts.

Photo: Angelo Merendino