Eric Shonkwiler Author Event

Spend an evening with Eric Shonkwiler as he discussed his book, Red Prepper: Building Collective Resilience in an Age of Collapse.
About this Event

6:30pm Thursday, October 22
at Prologue Bookshop

Red Prepper is a leftist's guide to prepping, reclaiming prepping from the paranoia of the doomsday industry and reframes it as a vital tool for collective resilience. It's a survival guide for the modern activist, teaching you how to build a pantry, filter water during infrastructure failures, and organize your neighbors for mutual aid.

Eric Shonkwiler is an award-winning author, security professional, and creator of the long-running preparedness newsletter When/If. He is the author of the novels Above All Men and 8th Street Power & Light, and the story collection Moon Up, Past Full, which earned the Coil Book Award and a Midwest Connections’ Pick. After serving as a 911 dispatcher and earning his MFA from UC Riverside, he spent years as a Director of Security and Emergency Preparedness officer in Columbus, Ohio, guiding public health and hospital facilities through the COVID-19 pandemic and large-scale mass-casualty exercises. His work and commentary on emergency preparedness have been featured in The Guardian and CNN.