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Mark Oprea is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio.
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He's contributed ​to
​OZY, Pacific Standard,
the Cleveland Magazine,
Atlas Obscura, Narratively
and has been featured in
The Week, Reader's Digest
and Longreads. He's a 2020 Kiplinger Fellow at
Ohio University.
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He's written about Mexico's
most dangerous volcano,
heroin addicts-turned-
police liaisons, a PhD
​drag queen's big come-up
​and the media circus 
at the 2016 RNC.
Mostly, he practices
solutions journalism
through narratives set
in the American Midwest.​

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