Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.

This short, literary memoir is a personal response to a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia. Even more so, Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir is a must-read for educators at all levels, for college students, for parents, and for all of us who think deeply and widely about American society.

Winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House.

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Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.

This short, literary memoir is a personal response to a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia. Even more so, Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir is a must-read for educators at all levels, for college students, for parents, and for all of us who think deeply and widely about American society.

Winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House.

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Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

by Megan Doney
Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

by Megan Doney

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After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.

This short, literary memoir is a personal response to a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia. Even more so, Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir is a must-read for educators at all levels, for college students, for parents, and for all of us who think deeply and widely about American society.

Winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781941551417
Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House
Publication date: 10/08/2024
Pages: 180
Sales rank: 491,619
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Megan Doney teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at New River Community College in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Ilanot Review, Rappahannock Review, Creative Nonfiction, and other literary journals, as well as the anthologies Allegheny and If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. Doney was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa in 2007, and returned there in 2015 to study reconciliation and public narrative in the aftermath of violence. She earned an MFA from Lesley University. UNARMED: An American Educator's Memoir is the winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House.
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