Books by Lee Varon

FIRST PLACE - 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK AWARD | Shot In The Head began as a book about the 1936 shooting of Varon's grandfather by the husband of his lover. But as she wrote, it became less about this violent event and more about grappling with the moral paradox of a grandmother steeped in bigotry and intolerance, yet both loving and loved.

Spare Change News is the nationÕs oldest street newspaper. Since 1992, the paper has been covering issues other media often ignore Ñ inequality, homelessness, culture and resistance.Spare Change News Poems: An Anthology by Homeless People and those Touched by Homelessness, spans over 15 years of poetry the paper has published.