
Vincent James Perrone is the author of Starving Romantic (11:11 Press, 2018); the chapbook, Travelogue for the Dispossessed (Ghost City Press, 2020), and a contributor to the anthology Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (11:11 Press, 2020). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, Catamaran, and West Trade Review. He is the recipient of the 2025 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize, a finalist for the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize, and selected for The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions in 2024.
Currently, Vincent is pursuing an MFA in fiction at the University of Virginia, where he won the 2025 Balch Short Story Prize and serves as the fiction editor for Meridian.