Candace Opper

Candace Jane Opper is a writer, a mother, and an occasional visual artist. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Longreads, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Hub and Vestoj, among others. This essay is adapted from her first book, Certain and Impossible Events, which was selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the second annual Kore Press Memoir Contest and will be published in August 2020.