Bio:

Vince Sgambati’s debut novel, Most Precious Blood, 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 readng by the Working Class Studies Association. His short story collection, Undertow of Memory, includes stories awarded by the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction and the Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in the anthology Queer and Catholic, North American Review, Nimrod International Journal, Voices In Italian Americana, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction From The Festival, Off the Rocks, The Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and Lavender Magazine where he wrote a Queer parenting column. Sanctuaries is his second novel.

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.