<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>