Richard O'Mara

Richard O'Mara worked for forty years as a journalist--editorial writer, foreign editor, foreign correspondent-- mainly for the Baltimore Sun. He is retired now from active journalism, but still writes for newspapers and journals such as VQR, Antioch Review, Sewanee Review, Under the Sun, Cimarron Review and High Plains Literary Review. His contributions to VQR over nearly a quarter century have largely been essays related to journalism and cultural and historical developments in Latin America. Most recently he spent three months as a Knight International Press Fellow helping out on a newspaper in Leon, Mexico. He is a graduate in English and History from the University of Maryland, he lives in Baltimore with his wife of over four decades, Susana Hanza O'Mara, born and raised in Argentina.

Published in VQR

• H. L. Mencken: Prose Marvel, Summer 2003
• Nuns, Spring 2003
• Great Power Politics: Retrospect and Prospect, Winter 2003
• Palestine on the Pampas, Winter 2001
• The Jesuit Republic of South America, Spring 1999
• The American Traveller, Spring 1998
• Jaguar, Spring 1997
• Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That, Spring 1996
• Recollections of a Nomad, Autumn 1987
• Getting Out the Views, Summer 1986