About

Sue Repko is a high school English teacher, a volunteer gun violence prevention advocate with Moms Demand Action and a 2019 Survivor Fellow for Everytown. She is the Be SMART Lead for Maine, where she presents Be SMART, a gun safety program, to community groups and facilitates the work of other presenters around the state.

She has a degree in psychology from Princeton University, an MFA in nonfiction from Bennington College and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University. Sue is a licensed professional planner in the state of New Jersey and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Her writing has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and newspapers in print and online. She is the author of Legendary Locals of Pottstown, her hometown in southeastern Pennsylvania. She is currently writing a memoir about a shooting from her childhood, in which her gunsmith father unintentionally shot a neighbor, who subsequently died.

WHAT A BULLET CAN DO combines her interests in public advocacy, safe communities, gun violence prevention, and storytelling as ways to bring people together.