Vince Granata is a nonfiction writer, and teaches composition at American University. Most of his writing concerns mental health care and his family’s experience of serious mental illness. His recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Passager, and Fourth Genre. His essay, “First Visit” won The Chattahoochee Review’s 2017 Lamar York Prize in nonfiction and was listed as “notable” in Best American Essays 2018.
In residence, he worked on final revisions of his memoir Everything Is Fine. This book, Vince's first, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2020.
