Megan DoneyMegan 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 Alegheny 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. Read More Read Less