ABOUT VINCENZO RAVINA

Contact: VRAVINA[at]GMAIL[dot]COM
Twitter: @SavourTheSea

Vincenzo Ravina is a writer, a journalist and a giraffe enthusiast.

He has written for McGraw-Hill Ryerson textbooks, The Coast, The Chronicle Herald, OpenFile, Tidings Magazine, Emirates Today, The Halifax Commoner and the King’s Journalism Review. Some of his fiction has appeared in Her Royal Majesty. He has written for and appeared on The ‘Fax, the weekly news show produced by the King’s Television Workshop.

Since graduating from the University of King’s College with a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours), he’s shot promotional videos for his alma mater and helped coordinate their multimedia campaign. He created a video for the Mental Health Foundation’s Festival of Trees, and he’s done videography for Situating Science.

He also took a three-month-long trip to Europe in the summer of 2011, which involved such adventures as feeding a giraffe at the London Zoo, and wandering the rainy streets of Paris at 2 AM with nowhere to stay for the night.

His website, IHATECROCS.com, has been mentioned in Newsweek, Radar Magazine, Maclean’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, CBC Radio and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. 

His favourite punctuation marks are the semi-colon and the tilde. He keeps lists of interesting words, names and phrases. He never deletes emails and has trouble throwing things away. He brushes his teeth so hard his dentist was all like, “Slow your roll! Your gums are receding!” Intense.

His worst fear is Alzheimer’s. His second favourite animal is the penguin. He staunchly believes that Superman is better than Batman and would beat him in a fight. If it isn’t in the Oxford English Dictionary, it isn’t a word.

He used to be a magician, and sometimes he still is, but it is really, really rare.

Occasionally, late at night, he will get itchy feet and walk to the local 24-hour Sobeys and have his blood pressure checked.

In his spare time, he writes short stories and long stories.

He lives in squalor.