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  

Kevin Vachna — Author of Noise, Narratives, and the New Weird

Kevin Vachna is an author, educator, and experimental storyteller who works at the intersection of literature, music, and myth. His writing feels like a mixtape, sampling influences, remixing voices, and stitching fragments of reality into haunted narratives that are both urgent and timeless.

His early works (Summer of the Fall and Portraits of People You Never Knew) explored fractured identity and rebellion against cultural control. In 2020, he released OBSOLETE: A Teacher’s Tale (of tomorrow, today!), a dystopian graphic novel about the automation of education. Satirical and chilling in equal measure, the book imagines what happens when efficiency replaces human connection. Obsolete is often described as Black Mirror meets Dead Poets Society: it portrays a future where education is automated, students are trapped in passive screen-addiction, and sinister programs like the “Success Spheres” threaten the essence of human learning.

Academically, he’s no slouch either: graduating summa cum laude from Manhattan College (a role he famously declined as valedictorian on moral grounds), then earning an M.A. in English Literature from Lehman College (2012) and another master’s in School Administration from Hunter College (2016).

After a decade teaching English in the Bronx, Kevin transitioned into the private sector and released his most ambitious work: OBSOLETE: A Teacher’s Tale (of tomorrow, today!), a dystopian graphic novel published in October 2020.

At the core of his work now is the QEA cycle, a sprawling multi-media project about a fictional band whose music bends reality. The first novel, A Fractured Frequency, introduces Hank Van Vice and his bandmates as they spiral through cosmic horror, authoritarian surveillance, and the dangerous power of sound itself. Yet the story is not limited to the novel. Vachna has extended the band’s mythology through lyrics, concept albums (Not All Vampires Suck Blood, Ghost Notes, Phantom Limbs, Black Book), and immersive “found artifacts” such as distorted Polaroids, impossible setlists, and fragments of Hank’s journal.

The effect is disorienting, like stumbling into a lost archive: half novel, half mixtape, half séance. It captures the way music once moved through culture like rumor, myth, and rebellion, offering a glimpse of something real in a manufactured world.

Kevin Vachna’s fiction is meta-modern collage with a neo-romantic core: fragmented, recursive, and darkly funny, yet driven by a stubborn belief in broken beauty. He writes for anyone who has ever felt fractured and still chosen to make meaning out of the noise.

He's also known beyond the page. Kevin hosts a monthly TV and podcast series on film: Talking Technophobia in Film. He continues to teach and inspire at a private high school in Westchester, NY, and is actively developing new creative projects, including A Fractured Frequency, A Quantum Refrain, and A Shattered Symphony.

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