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Megan Doney

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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.

2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House
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Testimonials

  • This is like no other book I’ve read–about gun control or anything else. Unexpected, poetic, it gives voice to the mix of fear, rage, shame, and guilty passivity so many Americans feel from a distance about gun violence. Her experience in South Africa presents a clearheaded alternative way of confronting both a brutal history and brutality in the present, contrasted with America’s heart of darkness.

    -Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, winner of the 2023 PEN John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for Nonfiction.

  • A terrific blend of a very intellectual, highly informed voice and a passionate, lyrical, descriptive and observational voice of a memoirist and essayist.

    Emily Rapp Black, author of Sanctuary: A Memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, and Poster Child

  • Evocative and compelling—there were several moments when I felt moved almost to tears.

    Caroline Light, Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University and author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

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