Greta Morgan is a songwriter, storyteller, creative mentor, and forest dweller. She is the author of The Lost Voice (HarperOne, 2025) and the forthcoming Searching for a Love Song (HarperOne, 2028).

Prior to focusing on prose, Greta built a seventeen year music career — which began when she signed her first record deal in high school — as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind The Hush Sound, Springtime Carnivore, and Gold Motel, and releasing 9 albums. She was a touring member of Vampire Weekend (2018-2022) and a composer for dozens of songs for film and television.

In 2020, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder with no known cure, which dramatically diminished her ability to sing. After a three-year period of searching and recalibration, she redirected her creativity toward prose, teaching, private mentorship, meditation, and connecting with the natural world.

Greta now lives in the Catskills of New York, where she can usually be found watching golden leaves float down creeks, shooting archery on writing breaks, weekend-ing in her camper van, and declaring almost every meal to be the best of her life.

Over the past five years, she has cultivated a devoted community of returning writers and artists attending her transformative online workshops. Today, her practice has expanded to include in-person retreats and private mentorship, which guide people toward their truest work and most expansive lives.

Greta was recently profiled in Forbes, The Creative Independent, TedX’s “How to Be a Better Human” podcast, Talkhouse, No Depression Magazine, Elevated Outdoors, and Northern Transmissions.

Selected radio appearances:

WBEZ Chicago “Greta Morgan lost her voice to Long COVID. In a new book, she finds it.”

“Have you Lost Something that Once Defined You?” KQED: “What happens when the thing that makes you you is gone?”

Selected recent podcast appearances:

THE OTHER 22 HOURS: Greta Morgan shares her creativity practices, discusses perfect moments, her lost voice, and the process of pitching her book.

The Working Songwriter with Joe Pug: Greta and Joe discuss music career and changes in the industry over 20 years.

VOICES OF LONG COVID Podcast: Emotional and physical tools for healing and surviving Long COVID.

The NEUFIT Podcast: (This is Greta’s brother Garrett’s PODCAST!): Sharing the book’s backstory and talking about the mechanics of neurological disorders.

PROXY PODCAST: Greta is invited in as a proxy to help a memoirist who lost her inner voice and has been unable to write since a concussion five years prior. Hosted by NPR’s Invisibilia’s Yowei Shaw.

Brain and Life Podcast: Discussing physical treatment and emotional survival while adapting to Spasmodic Dysphonia.

A Sampling of Songs Written by Greta Morgan

“A poignant, tenacious memoir by musician Greta Morgan chronicling how she rediscovered her artistic voice after losing her ability to sing.

In 2019, Greta Morgan was on the rise. She was a touring member of Vampire Weekend, performed with Jenny Lewis, and garnered critical acclaim with her own musical projects. But in March 2020, after contracting Covid-19, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder with no known cure that left her unable to sing. Her once crystalline voice now reduced to a hush, she saw her career come to an abrupt standstill.

Beyond the physical ramifications, what does it mean to cultivate a true voice? Morgan’s loss launches her into a journey of grief and self-discovery, forcing her to broaden her artistic horizons and reconstruct her sense of self. Her narrative takes us on a whirlwind tour of music studios, band buses, and celebrity-filled backstage parties, but it also takes us to the red canyons of Utah and the spacious wilderness of the American Southwest. In these vast landscapes, Morgan finds unexpected community. In the silence, she learns how to listen to parts of herself she has neglected.

Questioning the purpose of creativity and what defines artistic passion, The Lost Voice is a raw and intimate portrait of grief, self-discovery, and the choice to keep living and creating.”