Rich Dunning | Memoirist. Novelist. Truth-Teller.
Coming Early Fall 2025
Silence Was My First Language will be available in hardcover and digital formats.
Preorders open soon.
This is more than a book. It’s a voice reclaimed—and it’s almost here.
I was raised in a basement where silence was the only language spoken.
Not because I didn’t have a voice—but because no one wanted to hear it.
Silence Was My First Language is the story of what it means to survive the unspeakable when no one is coming to save you. It’s not a redemption arc. It’s a reckoning.
I wrote this book for the kids who made it out with their voices buried. I wrote it for the ones who never got to speak. And I wrote it for me—because survival is not the same thing as silence, and I’m done being quiet.
My Brand Vision
Rich Dunning is a writer who turns silence into story.
His work exists to elevate the unheard, expose what’s hidden, and offer unapologetic voice to the ones who survived what no one should. Through memoir and literary fiction, he writes with precision, power, and purpose—refusing to flinch, and refusing to stay quiet.
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