Amye Archer

Amye Archer holds an MFA from Wilkes University and is the author of Fat Girl, Skinny: A Memoir (2016) and a coeditor of If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings (2019). She hosts the podcast Gen X, This Is Why. Amye writes and teaches in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and twin daughters.

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Writing can be a way of processing traumatic events, but it can also cause its own kind of distress. The coeditor of a book about school shootings considers the cost of "holding the pain."
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Amye Archer

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