birth_date: 1978-07-14 00:00:00
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name: Vinita Ramani
about: Vinita Ramani is a freelance writer, editor and occasional furniture-painting artist at Big Blue Trunk. She has held roles as a contributing editor at RICE Media and as a data journalist and editor at Kontinentalist, where she covered a broad array of topics including politics, race, identity and biodiversity conservation in Asia. Her film and music criticism has appeared in BigO (Singapore), Criticine (Philippines), Kino! (Slovenia), Exclaim! (Canada) and Raj Palta (Canada); her writing has also been published in Portside Review, Kyoto Journal, POSKOD, Esquire (Singapore), Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Straits Times and The Margins, among many other publications. She was a founding editor of the National Museum of Singapore’s Cinematheque Vinita Ramani is a freelance writer, editor and occasional furniture-painting artist at Big Blue Trunk. She has held roles as a contributing editor at RICE Media and as a data journalist and editor at Kontinentalist, where she covered a broad array of topics including politics, race, identity and biodiversity conservation in Asia. Her film and music criticism has appeared in BigO (Singapore), Criticine (Philippines), Kino! (Slovenia), Exclaim! (Canada) and Raj Palta (Canada); her writing has also been published in Portside Review, Kyoto Journal, POSKOD, Esquire (Singapore), Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Straits Times and The Margins, among many other publications. She was a founding editor of the National Museum of Singapore’s Cinematheque Quarterly, as well as a recipient of an Arts Creation Fund grant from the National Arts Council.Her graphic memoir Bearing Witness (with Griselda Gabriele) was released in 2022 by Difference Engine, and her first fiction collection The Grand Arcade is forthcoming from Epigram Books. Vinita was born in India, then at an early age relocated to Bahrain, the UK and Hong Kong, before ending up in Singapore, where she currently lives with her family. ...more