Vinita Ramani is a writer and works at Mandai Wildlife Group, where she creates programs on biodiversity and wildlife conservation. She has held roles as a contributing editor at RICE Media and as a data journalist and editor at Kontinentalist, covering an array of topics, including politics, race, identity and transitional justice. Her film and music criticism as 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 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 (2024). Vinita was born in India, has lived in Bahrain, the UK, Hong Kong and
Canada. She currently lives in Singapore with her family.
