Candace Jane Opper is the author of Certain and Impossible Events (2021), selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Kore Press Memoir Award. Her essays have appeared in Guernica, Longreads, Narratively, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Hub, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Vestoj, among others. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, writer Patrick McGinty, and their son.