Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

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Available now as paperback or eBook on Amazon.com

The Emotional Confessional to his Father

CAGED has been awarded the following:

- 2012 Reader Views Literary Award for Best Book, Mid-Atlantic
- Silver Medal, 2011 eLit Award for Essay/Creative Nonfiction
- Bronze Medal, IPPY’s 2012 Best Regional Nonfiction, Mid-Atlantic

The Blurbs

“I was inspired…”

- Ken Shamrock
UFC Hall of Famer

“There are writers who have ideas, and there are those who have craft. Conaway is both.”

- Lisa Hickey
CEO of Good Men Media Inc.

“I couldn’t stop reading. Conaway’s writing style is as captivating as his story. He takes you inside the heart, mind and soul of a fighter. He is the voice for all fighters that battle their demons inside the cage.”

- Glen Cordoza
author for Victory Belt Publishing

“Cameron Conaway presents us with a candid story of a never-give-up attitude and an appreciation of life despite all of its seemingly hopeless challenges. His expressionism effectively details his inner strength and endurance in battling his demons through mixed martial arts and the human spirit. The book is heartfelt… it shows us a side of what many consider brutal as a means of achieving purpose and a vehicle for better understanding ourselves.”

- Jim Arvanitis
MMA Pioneer and Black Belt Magazine’s 2009 Instructor of the Year

“Poetical version of Jiu-Jitsu!”

- Saulo Ribeiro
World Jiu-jitsu Champion
Author of best seller Jiu-Jitsu University

“Cameron Conaway’s fierce, fearless memoir offers a clear-eyed look at a brutal childhood, an angry father, and a son’s gathering demons. In the end, though, the author carves his way forward through an unlikely combination of mixed martial arts, poetry, and human connection. Brutal and relentless, this book never fails to surprise, and along the way Conaway gives voice and hope to all young men who must learn to grow up and out of their fathers’ footsteps or risk falling into the same hole.”

- Dinty W. Moore
author of Between Panic & Desire