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Arlene Opio

Arlene Opio is a Puerto Rican fiction writer and screenwriter born in Queens, NY and raised in Wilmington, DE. A no sabo who hates dating apps, her stories explore the intersections of diasporic Latinidad, class, and technology as they impact interpersonal, but especially romantic, relationships in the modern world. Currently, she is an MFA fiction candidate at the University of Miami at work on her first novel.

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Arlene Opio

Aug 12, 2026

Living in A Slow Moving Catastrophe, Following the What Ifs: A Conversation with Mary Helen Specht

“I found myself writing a scene with an indie rock musician playing a set at Burning Man, and her daughter goes missing. But, I didn’t really know if this was a novel or a story or what was going to…

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