Vincenzo Ravina

Vincenzo Ravina is a writer and journalist.

His favourite punctuation marks are the semi-colon and the tilde. He keeps lists of interesting words, names and phrases. He never deletes e-mails 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 favourite animal is the giraffe. His second favourite 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.

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

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

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

He lives in squalor.