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 nearly two-decade 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. She was a touring member of Vampire Weekend (2018-2022) and a composer of 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. In the years since, she has redirected her creative practice toward writing, teaching, and exploring the intersection of creativity, connection, and consciousness.

Greta lives in the Catskills of New York, where she can usually be found watching golden leaves float down creeks, shooting archery on writing breaks, rolling around in her camper van, and declaring almost every meal to be the best of her life. She offers longform workshops and private mentorship designed to guide artists, writers, and seekers toward their truest and most creative lives.

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TEDX: How To Find Your Voice

What would happen if the thing that defined you disappeared overnight? Whether it’s our job, our abilities, or output—many of us meld our identities with the things we do, and often forget who we are in the process. Greta Morgan is a writer and musician whose musical projects include Vampire Weekend, Springtime Carnivore, and Gold Motel. In 2020, Greta was diagnosed with a disorder that completely changed her ability to sing. In this episode, she shares what her vocal loss and recovery taught her about her inner voice, and how we might find our voice and resilience in both art and the creative process.

I Lost Something In the Hills: A conversation with Greta Morgan about imperfection, wandering, and Why she loves the picasso quote “Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

NEW VOICE - Elevated Outdoors Summer 2022

Excerpt:

When you were facing this loss, what did you find out in the desert that helped you?

I would go into Zion Canyon every night—amazingly, no one, except Sarah, was there after eight o’clock–and I would just spend time with the animals, with the river, and listen. My whole life had been full of sound, of man-made sound, leading up to this moment: A record always playing. I played drums. I played guitar. I played piano. I sang. Now, my listeningbecame so powerful that when I was watching the Perseid meteor shower, I thought I could hear the stars. I would go to the wilderness areas outside the park and just wander alone for a day or two. Just being among all of the creatures of the natural world, I would see how purely they are authentically themselves. There’s no pretending to be anything else. It mirrored back to me all the ways that I had been pretending or that I had wanted to present some version of who I was.

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