Mark Oprea - Mark Oprea | Freelance Journalist

Mark Oprea is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio.

He's contributed to
NPR, OZY, Narratively,
the Pacific Standard and
the Cleveland Magazine,
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 set
across the U.S. and Mexico.