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.
Megan Doney was interviewed about Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir. Read the interview.
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Megan Doney
Megan earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, and is a professor of English at New River Community College, where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature. She was a 2007 Fulbright-Hays fellow to South Africa, and returned to that country in 2015-2016 as a research fellow at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, studying reconciliation and public witnessing after violence. Her work has been published in Creative Nonfiction, Rappahannock Review, Ilanot Review, New Limestone Review, Earth & Altar, and Inside Higher Ed. Winner of the 2024 WWPH Nonfiction Prize for Unarmed.