Meet Vince
Vince Sgambati’s debut novel, Most Precious Blood, published by Guernica World Editions, received an IPPY Award, a KIRKUS star review, was a Foreword Indies finalist in literary fiction, a Central New York Book Awards Finalist, and was listed as recommended reading by the Working Class Studies Association. Sgambati’s short story collection, Undertow Of Memory, published by Fomite Press, includes stories previously published in literary journals and recognized by Nimrod Literary: the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the LGBTQ Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. His short stories have been recognized by the Nimrod Literary Awards: the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest (2013 & 2016). His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in North American Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Gertrude, Off The Rocks, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Queer and Catholic, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and Lavender Magazine, where he wrote a regular column on Queer Parenting. Sanctuaries is Vince’s second novel, published by Standing Stone Books.
Vince is a former teacher in urban public schools and long-time social justice activist. Vince and his dogs, Luca and Stella, live in New York City and in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York where Vince cares for the eight-acre arboretum of conifers and deciduous trees he and his life-partner, Jack (now passed), planted years ago.
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