Vanda's first novel, Juliana (Vol. 1, 1941-1944) is about LGBT life in 1940s New York City.
As a playwright Vanda has received numerous honors, among them an Edward Albee Fellowship. Her play, Vile Affections, published by Original Works was a finalist for a National Lambda Literary Award. Her play, Patient HM, which later became The Forgetting Curve, won the Pride Stage and Screen's Women's Playwriting Award, was produced at The Boston Arts’ Center and is currently under option by Theatrum Mundi. Another play, Why'd Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe, won Celebration Theater's (where Naked Boys Singing originated) Best New LGBT Play. Original Works published her play, Vile Affections, in 2008.
Vanda's non-fiction story, "Jack," was published in Prairie Schooner in Summer 2011 and another non-fiction piece, "Roger: Lost Between Philosophies," which appears Pentimento was selected by New Millennium Writings for Honorable Mention from a submission pool of 1,300.
Vanda is a full professor at Metropolitan College of New York, where she teaches psychology and counseling