V A C A T T A C

 /ˈvakˌəˈtak/.

ME: Writer. Teacher. Artist. Dreamer.

WE: Dream. Connect. Create. Continue.

THIS: For Magic & Madness

A place for the independent, original, and out-there.
An experiment in messages and messengers.

Nothing important has ever happened here…

an ongoing interactive narrative experience  

W A R W/W O R D S

"When I was a little kid, I'd pretend to create vast worlds with my mind. As an adult, I'm still pretending." /// Above all the aspects of his personality and ways in which Kevin Vachna can be labeled, one always seems to present itself to the foreground: writer. First and foremost, he is a writer. "Writing is something that has found ways to influence every facet of my life. I enjoy writing. It is an act of creation." The act of telling a story interests him. "With writing, it is about exorcising all those demons and angels from my mind by trapping them down, creating a world all my own, and seeing how it grows and changes." /// In 2009, Kevin Vachna graduated summa cum laude from Manhattan College after rejecting the Valedictorian-ship on "moral grounds".  Vachna held the position of Submissions Editor for Manhattan Magazine, the school’s literary magazine. He also contributed to this publication, submitting short stories, which were "suspiciously awarded" first place in 2008 and second place in 2009. Other literary magazines to which he has been featured include Obscura and Polaris. In the spring of 2009, at the age of 21, Kevin published a short novel, Summer of the Fall, through Outskirts Press. He describes this action as "the culmination of my lifelong passion for writing, completely ahead of schedule." Kevin spent recent summers editing a second experimental- novel, Not All Vampires Suck Blood. "I imagine a way to share ideas and words across a narrative. I strive to create an experience unique to each reader, unified by that very same experience." /// For ten years, Vachna was employed as a high school English teacher at a New York City public school in the Bronx, where he "helps create the creators of tomorrow.”  "Everyday, I hope to inspire a passion for reading and writing in a new generation of students, the same way my teachers inspired that passion in me." /// In 2012, Kevin completed an English Literature MA at Lehman College. In 2016, he received a Masters in School Administration from Hunter College. /// The completion of Kevin’s latest project OBSOLETE in 2019 came on the footsteps of his exit from the New York City Department of Education. Neither parties elected to comment on any meta-narrative connections between art and life. /// Currently, Kevin teaches English at a private high school in Westchester, New York and hosts a film-discussion program on television. /// In the future, he plans on completing his MFA in Creative Writing, focusing on experimental fiction writing. Just because.  ///  

All photos on this site were taken by Kevin Vachna while on adventures.