UNARMED

<p><strong>After surviving a school shooting</strong><strong> English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life she wrote<em> Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir.</em> 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. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>This short literary memoir is a personal response to a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg Virginia. Even more so <em>Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir</em> 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. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. </strong></p>